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Too uni or not to uni?

WITH THOUSANDS of the region’s applicants predicted to miss out on a place at university this summer, many young people across the North East may find themselves questioning what to do next.

With the annual panic setting in around exam results, it is often hard to know what to do for the best.

From entrepreneurs to premiership footballers, Richard Nugent, Europe’s premier leadership coach, is the motivational guru behind some of the country’s most successful people. He yesterday told bdaily that it is not always necessary to go to university to get the career and the life that you want and that many employers will take school leavers hunger to learn and be trained.

He said: “It’s great to have a university education but the reality is that after university it is becoming harder and harder for graduates to get the jobs that they want and they often leave with not only a degree, but also a lot of debt.

“Some of the most well known and successful business people never went to university. This country is suffering from an academic inflation, with many thinking that to get a great job you need to have a good degree.”

By following some simple steps, Richard says you don’t have to go to university to have a successful career.

Do what you want to do.

Too many people spend too long doing jobs that they don’t like to do, or studying with no idea what they intend to do with their qualification. Work experience is available, so utilise it by trying out lots of different jobs. Often people discover that actually this is not something they wanted after all or find a passion for something completely different.

Find an expert in your chosen field and get in touch with them.

Often many successful people will make the time to offer advice to help you build a career through mentoring.

Study.

Just because you aren’t at university, doesn’t meant you can’t learn. Once you decide what it is that you want to do, read everything you can find, listen to audio programmes and trawl the web so that you become your own expert.

Don’t settle for mediocrity.

Set out to be the best in your field; study with the best, find out who is out there and see it as a way to build the future that you want.

Don’t listen to the ’no’ people.

There will be people around you that tell you that you can’t do something but whatever it is you want to do, if anyone has done it before and you are committed to doing it, then you ‘can’. Parents are well meaning but the world has changed even in the last three years and the new economy is ripe for new entrepreneurs who are ready to be successful.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .