The Guardian: The six smart things to do this summer
Saturday June 11, 2005
The way you choose to spend your long break could lead to your big break. Adeline Iziren has some tips
It’s Tony Blair’s favourite mantra: education, education, education. But an education isn’t enough to land you a great graduate job these days – even if you end up getting a first from a top university. What you need is work experience and this is borne out by numerous surveys which show that bosses want employability skills and tend to offer graduate jobs to students who have worked for them paid or unpaid. So, if you’re about to start your second or final year in the autumn, why not make the most of the long summer break. You could: