I've posted about my situation before, but am getting a bit desperate now. Please could I ask for your help? I've tried to be really honest. Please could you be kind and objective? I really don't want to get flamed
My situation:
I graduated with a French and Spanish degree from a very academic university in 2015. I speak fluent French and advanced Spanish.
At university, I did several placements with national newspapers and magazines, and held several editorship positions for student newspapers, as I wanted to get into journalism. However, entry-level journalism roles have extremely low salaries, especially in London, where many are based. At university, I had planned to do a journalism master's qualification after graduating, but they're so so expensive and don't guarantee a job at the end unfortunately, so I decided against it. I do hospital radio volunteering on the weekends though, as it seems like a good way of perhaps going into media-based roles.
Since graduating, I've been trying to find a full-time job and haven't found anything. While I was looking for a full-time role, straight after uni, I worked as a self-employed private tutor and freelance copywriter in my hometown and lived at home.
In summer 2016, I moved to London to do teacher training, which I resigned from in winter 2016 due to health reasons.
To try and give myself relevant and important skills, I've started training as a Citizens Advice adviser in London in autumn last year. It's been so so useful in so many ways, and I'm so glad I've started doing it. It is voluntary though, which means it's unpaid, and ideally I need to look for paid work.
I'm also doing tuition through a couple of agencies alongside the Citizens Advice volunteering. Although the tuition is well-paid per hour, it's ad-hoc and not very regular (it stops during the school holidays etc.)
I have an assessment coming up for a Civil Service job next week, but it's for one post and I'm sure lots of people are going for it.
The problem:
I've been looking for jobs and haven't had any luck with finding a full-time job.
Everything that I'm looking at seems extremely competitive and there doesn't seem to be a clear, straightforward path to these jobs, if that makes sense.
I've had quite a few interviews over the last few months, but they haven't come to anything.
I've tried looking for jobs through: recruitment agencies (Reed, Tate, VMA Group, Love Success), job websites (W4MP Jobs, Guardian Jobs) and companies' own website.
I think I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas and guidance on how I can get a full-time job please?
I'm 26, and getting on a bit, with elderly parents, so getting quite worried.
The industries that I'm interested in are:
- Communications, PR and marketing
- Politics
- Journalism
- Government and Civil Service
- Charity sector (Communications, PR, marketing and policy roles).
Thanks so much