The time after college is a crucial point in a recent grads life where they gotta start finding a job. All recent graduate students have most likely faced that same predicament, and have most likely asked themselves, “How do I get a job without skills and experience? I need a job so I can get that skills and experience!”
Well, here’s how! Here’s a few tips and bits of advice on how to increase your skillset after graduating college.
Taking classes is kind of like jumping out of the fire, only to jump straight back into it. But it’s one of the best and most efficient ways to continue gaining skills after college, and some of the online classes even give you certificates once you’re done with the course.
There’s a ton of great resources online to start taking online courses to expand your skills. Here’s a list of them:
Getting an internship is a great way to gain skills. Indeed.com currently has a plethora of internship opportunities that vary from social media, content creation, cinematography, journalism, finance, and so many other career fields.
You can also take up internships during college, but who says you can’t keep doing internships? If you’re looking to expand your skills, internships are the way to go.
It’s especially perfect right now, considering that many internships are remote, so you can stay inside while racking up your skillset.
If you’re ever on LinkedIn, and you’re following big companies, sometimes they’ll put out free workshops for you to attend. Workshops are a great way to see what the industry you’re about to head into and what it’s like.
LinkedIn is a great website to see any workshops that big companies sometimes put out, too.
Sometimes, these workshops even show you how to do a specific thing or how to get into the industry that you want to get a job in. They’re great! It’s a good alternative to physical meetups, but you could totally do those post-quarantine!
Volunteering your time is another great way to expand on your skills, and to network as well! When you volunteer, you connect with a lot of people, which, in turn, allows for a ton of networking to be done. You’ll also be helping a lot of people by volunteering, so it’s a win-win situation for everyone!
You can also put any volunteering you’ve done on your resume, so it makes you look even better. It shows that you aren’t just all work and no play, and shows you do a lot of good stuff with your time.
Here’s some volunteering sites you can use post-quarantine:
*VolunteerMatch has remote and online volunteering opportunities!
Listening to podcasts is another way to get your feet into the door of your preferred industry, and a pretty easy way to expand on your skills. This goes hand-in-hand with registering to workshops.
There’s a ton of podcasts you can listen to on the iTunes Store, Audible, and even on YouTube. They’ll sometimes talk about their jobs and what they do.
Sometimes returning to the most basic principles of learning is one of the best ways to learn new skills.
Do you have a library in your town? They’re one of the best resources for learning new skills because you’ll be learning and reading from professionals who’ve written books about your preferred industry. The library also has computers that you can use if you don’t have a computer.
Even if you don’t have a library, you have a ton of PDF’s, resources, and books online for you to read and learn from. If you don’t have a ton of money to spend on books, then ThriftBooks and Amazon are wonderful resources for you to check out used or cheap books so you can get your learning on!
Hopefully this helped you out, if you don’t really know how to get started with furthering your skills and experience. There’s plenty of other websites and resources that weren’t mentioned that can totally help you in your journey for more skills. It’s just a matter of finding the right one for you.
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