In episode 3 of season 3 Siobhan and Konstantina chat with guest Dhruv Khrisnaraj the Director & Co-Founder at Student Circus a job search platform for international students. Find out more on the Warwick University Careers pages for International StudentsThe full video podcast is available on YouTubeInternational Graduate Success with Dhruv Khrisnaraj SpotifyTranscript: "Siobhan Qadir: I mean, we could talk to you all day. But I just want to ask you one last question. Dhruv Khrisnaraj: Sure. Siobhan: What would you tell your 21...24 year old self? What advice would you give?Dhruv: Okay, so the first thing I would give is start early way earlier, so right from the time you landed. I’m guilty as charged for the first three, four months I was so enamored by the beauty that the UK education system living in the UK and everything else around you gives, that, you know, you're totally defocused and by the time you start focusing, it's too late.So start early. The second advice that I would for sure give is make the most of the career services and the resources. I am telling you now, after working with universities across the UK, with so many of them, I know how much blood, sweat, and tears the careers consultants like yourselves put to support students and I it just breaks my heart to see that when I'm talking to students, the first thing they come and do is they complain about not being helped and when you ask them why and you ask them if they visited the career services, most of them say yes or no and they say yes, but I know about them I didn’t visit them I didn't take their support or it wasn't enough and stuff like that. And when you start probing them, you realize that they've not even attended any sessions, they're not done much.So again, you know, make the most of all the resources I always kind of make it a joke in my presentations to go and say, you know, it's free you've already paid for it, so make the most of itbecause a lot of international students, unfortunately, are being targeted by a lot of scammers around and saying you know what, pay us and we will give you jobs and visas.You don't need to pay anyone in the uk for jobs and visas and I know, companies trying and going and saying pay us a couple of quid a month to access jobs you don’t need to pay anyone your university is giving you access to all of that stuff It's all free, all that you need to do is spend less time on Instagram and more time on LinkedIn, and more time on your job search.And you should be fine."
