Jobs for a College Dropout

[Belushi]

Obviously they are, otherwise how would anyone start? It's not like media; no one goes and works as an office junior for free to get experience

Through training schemes for school leavers or take them on as graduates.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

whats he interested in? starting from there with something which may fire him up might be helpful.
Even volunteering in some capacity could get him a really good reference with regards his personal qualities and knowledge of his field...

 

[chio]

That's how I started out; volunteering somewhere, then a job came up and they took me on

 

[_angel_]

whats he interested in? starting from there with something which may fire him up might be helpful.
Even volunteering in some capacity could get him a really good reference with regards his personal qualities and knowledge of his field...

You got there before I did. I volunteered after leaving college and eventually got a job out of it.

 

[Thora]

Rather laughably I did learning support and teaching assistant work after I dropped out.

Then I fucked off abroad and waited until I knew what I wanted to do before reapplying to uni.

 

[Thora]

Through training schemes for school leavers or take them on as graduates.

I did lots of office temping and call centre work through agencies before I went to uni - Pertemps took me on with no experience bar a Saturday job in an opticians and always found me just enough work.

 

[fractionMan]

Cheers, do restaurants recruit dishwashers themselves or do they use agencies?

I walked into every restaurant in town and asked for a job until I got one.

 

[Kuso]

shops, of all kinds... call centres... anywhere that's looking for staff really.

Start on the floor, work your way up to team leader/supervisor etc

My brother started a plumbing apprenticeship after his GCSEs, didn't like it and left for the army. Didn't like that, came home and started college to do A-levels. Decided that wasn't for him and dropped out. Worked in a few casual jobs then started in a call centre, just on the floor on the phones. He was made team leader and then after a while something else above that. He's happy enough with what he does now and it pays well enough.

Another friend spent 4 or 5 years at college, repeating years, changing courses etc and never actually got a qualification out of it. He started a while ago for some insurance company and worked his way up through that, company car n all that now.