Time to face the real world

It is coming to that time when the real world taps one on the shoulder as three years at journalism school is rapidly ending.

Having seen the news at first hand from writing this blog,it is not going to be the best time to be trying to enter the profession but I take heart from this posting over at journalism.co.uk by Michael Haddon who is a postgraduate student of Newspaper Journalism at City University London.

We all have to take a realistic - but not pessimistic - assessment of the way things stand. I’m sure that many young graduates will give up and get out of the game, but I love journalism too much to do that. Thoughts of walking into one of the best graduate schemes are gone and the aim must be making sure we are best placed for that elusive job which should eventually show up. I plan to continue blogging, interacting using Twitter and revitalising that LinkedIn presence where a personal profile might be able to help career ambitions.

I agree with Michael's analysis.It is not going to be a question of walking into graduate jobs,it is going to be a process of networking,probaly internships and hopefully some freelancing.

I am alos working on a project myself of which more soon but for those that are getting disheartened,my advice is to stand back and take a realistic look at the prospects.

Most importantly don't throw away the skills you have learnt in the previous years