"Sorry you were Unsuccessful on this Occasion"

With just a couple more weeks to go before finishing university my mind has naturally started to plan my next steps.

Im not going to lie, I am slightly worried about my future job prospects as the worlds employment status looks pretty bleak.

I know that I am not in the worst situation: my mum got me an administration job back during 2006 in my gap year and I have since retured each university holiday and therefore been building up my office admin experience. I know that that is a good thing to have listed on the CV - every team will always need an administrator to co-ordinate the them and keep things ticking over - but I have just spent 3 years (and thousands of pounds) studying to become a journalist so that is where I really want to be.

Don't get me wrong, I have been trying to search for jobs in that sort of category (Gorkana.com has been especially helpful) but I just seem to continuously be hitting dead ends: "Sorry you were unsuccessful on this occasion" seems to be the only reply.

I did hit one success though and have now arranged two weeks work experience with a publishing company in June - Thank you!

It just seems though that everywhere is wanting more experience. It doesn't seem to matter that I have a journalism degree (although i'm sure it does help slightly), instead its all about the 'on-job' experience...

So, it looks like I shall be benefiting from the admin experience and get a job in that area whilst also trying to increase my journalism work experience at the same time...

Tough time ahead huh?