Some simple guides found in the Guardian link below from a wide range of careers professionals. However, in even briefer terms:
- Its ok to make a career mistake, learn from it, reassess and then choose wisely
- Pray and spray applications: dont work, reduce your energy and time, reduce focus on the jobs you do really want
- If the right job is key, then honestly asssess whether time spent on a masters or similar is more attractive than the experience of work in the long run
- You want to be found by employers and rectuiters? Have a positive visible prescence online and through intelligent networks (digitial and personal)
- Depth of thought, control, analysis, honesty, flexibility, drive, consistent, robust, self aware, balanced are all key skills of a great job hunter and career planner
http://www.theguardian.com/careers/careers-blog/graduate-careers-six-ways-get-job-after-university?CMP=new_1194&CMP