Make a list of all that you are good at, look at new ways to use these skills and then position yourself accordingly

From this list you can then look over what other options you have which fit into your skills and attributes.

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Graduates looking for jobs have had it tough for the past two years. All that learning, all that education, only to find that the number of entry-level positions has been declining steadily, even sharply. At last, however, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The good news is that the number of entry-level vacancies available at the country’s leading employers is expected to rise by 11.8 per cent this year. The bad news is that undergraduates may find themselves competing for such posts with graduates from the past two years who are still unemployed...

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Walking across the tarmac towards a crowd of spectators after completing an exhilarating spin in one of the RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfires, Flt Lt Antony “Parky” Parkinson was greeted by an onlooker: “You've got a dream job, haven't you?”

“I had to agree,” he said. “I'd spent a couple of hours in the morning flying a Typhoon [Eurofighter] and then took off in the Spitfire on a gloriously warm summer evening. You can't get better than that.”

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Taryn Lee can remember her first contact with a barrister. Her parents, who had a pub on the seafront in Cleethorpes, had a dispute over the premises, where they ran a cabaret nightclub.

“I was 14 and I’d decided from about the age of 8 – probably sitting watching too much Crown Court on the telly – that this was what I wanted to do: wear a wig, stand in court and defend people.

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