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YOU鈥橰E about to graduate 鈥� then what? Take a deep breath, then have a think about the kind of work that might suit you. 鈥淲hat are the things you like doing, and what are the skills you have that are transferable to another type of environment?鈥� asks career coach . Try not to let bad experiences sour you on possible career options. If you鈥檝e had a bad lecturer in a discipline you enjoy, you may simply need a new 鈥渂oss鈥�, Safani says.

If you鈥檙e still struggling to come up with a sure answer, relax, so are most other graduates. Don鈥檛 forget, you鈥檝e probably got about 45 years of work ahead of you, so it is perfectly fine to spend a year or two on something you鈥檙e not sure you want to do forever, says Charlie Ball, deputy director for research at the in Manchester. 鈥淚t鈥檚 all part of the process of feeling your way into the jobs market,鈥� he says.

The best way to decide whether or not a job is for you is to give it a try, says Tanya de Grunwald, founder of careers blog and author of . 鈥淕et out there and start gaining some experience in something you鈥檙e interested in,鈥� she says. If you decide you don鈥檛 like it, you can always quit and find something else. 鈥淒on鈥檛 fear being labelled as a job-hopper,鈥� she says. 鈥淎s long as you can explain your career decisions in an interview for a new job, it鈥檚 no big deal.鈥�