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If I say that it is estimated that half of college students may have studied for a period of time and found that they did not really like this major, there must be many students who jumped out to refute:
You're wrong!
The truth is, it's more than half.
I have also met many such classmates.
When thinking about where to go in the future, one of their most common puzzles:
Should you choose to enter graduate school across majors, or find an internship that is not related to your major as soon as possible, and then use your internship experience as a bargaining chip to find a job that has nothing to do with your major in school recruitment?
To make this choice, you can think and choose according to the following ideas.
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See if you have a relatively clear career direction and goals
An important reality that is obvious, but overlooked by many, is:
Follow the flow of graduate school entrance examinations, hoping to use a higher degree to win a future for yourself that seems to have more choices;
Compared with first clarifying a career direction, and then accurately improving yourself according to the requirements of the candidate in this career direction, so as to make yourself more compatible with the requirements of the position, the success rate of the latter will be much greater.
For many positions that need to deal with people and need to fight for creativity, social experience and experience, and rich enough life experience are more important than academic qualifications.
Therefore, junior positions of these types and directions generally only require a college degree or above;
Higher level positions, will pay more attention to work experience, as long as the education standard can be met, higher education, will not have any plus.
It took several years of precious youth and countless days and nights to get a master's degree, if it is not what you value for your target position, it will not be worth the loss.
It is wiser to find your career goals and then determine your next action plan based on them.
Even after deciding on your career direction, you find that you still have to go to graduate school, and this state of knowing why you are taking the exam and why you are studying will not only make the graduate school more motivated, but also make the postgraduate study more targeted.
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It depends on whether personal characteristics are suitable for graduate school
Although choosing a career direction in advance, it is the ideal way to decide whether to enter graduate school according to the requirements of the target occupation.
However, many students do not have a clear career goal when they need to make this choice, and a second way to retreat is to see whether their personal characteristics are more suitable for graduate school, or more suitable for entering the workplace as soon as possible:
The easiest way to recall yourself from childhood to adulthood is it a scholarly type?
If yes, then it would be better to continue the postgraduate examination;
If not, it is not recommended to go to graduate school when you have little interest in going to graduate school and do not know what you will do after graduate school.
If this method seems too arbitrary, then doing a Holland career interest test will also be a better way to assist decision-making.
Among the test results of Hollander's career interests, research (I) and traditional (C) are very suitable for postgraduate examinations;
Enterprise type (E) and practical type (R) can be admitted to graduate school or directly enter the workplace, but also take into account their own various aspects;
The artistic (A) and social (S) are relatively less suitable for postgraduate examinations.
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See how difficult it is for you to take the interprofessional postgraduate examination and how sure you are
When we analyze the benefits of the graduate school entrance examination, of course, we will have these benefits only after successfully passing the examination.
But the reality is that the pass rate of graduate students averages less than 30%, and it is declining year after year as competition becomes more fierce.
Then we have to consider a problem very realistically:
If you choose the interdisciplinary entrance examination, how sure are you that you will successfully pass the exam?
If the evaluation is made, the odds are not great, and you still insist on choosing to prepare for graduate school, which means giving up the best internship opportunity in the second semester of your junior year, and the best opportunity to find a job through the fall recruitment in the first semester of your senior year, and come to the graduate exam that you are not sure of.
Whether it is worth making such a choice is also carefully weighed repeatedly.
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