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A Level and GCSE students like you need the half term to get a break from school. You can spend more time with your family and friends just relaxing at home or going on holiday with them. Nevertheless, you may need to catch up on your studies. Still, do not worry; you can both enjoy and get your studies on track. You can also think ahead by exploring what career you want to pursue in the near future. Apply the following tips and select the activities what you need to do.
Develop Time Management Skills
Now is the best time to start developing or further improving your time management skills. You need this ability at university. Manage the time you have this half term so that you can work on your studies, explore careers and still have time for fun.
Study with Friends
You may need to do some revision. If you need more motivation, you can study with friends. Research has shown that study groups can improve students’ grades and get them on the track to passing their exams. That is something to validate what we already feel and know. Being together makes studying enjoyable and, thus, more effective. Further, you are able to help one another.
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Go to Careers Shows
.Get a better view of what you really want to do in life. Have more and better opportunities to think whether you will love your dream job or discover new ones. Careers shows provide you the chance to know better the different jobs, what experience you need to get a student job in their industry and even how to get hired for them straight from the employers themselves.
Visit University Open Days
Whatever career you want, the university route is one best way to it. Aside from career shows, go to open days of universities and colleges to get a glimpse of how it is like being a student and help you decide whether it fits you. Get insights from students themselves; you even get to check the student accommodations. Universities and colleges schedule many of their open days during half term break.
Look for Work Experience
You can start looking for work experience. Many students are doing work experience during, as part of their work contract, the half term break. If you do not have one, now is a good time to start searching for one. Aside from career shows, there are many other events and sources of information for job openings for young people like you. These include the National Citizen Service which is for ages 15 – 17.
You need to do many things in your student job search including, among others, determining what career you would like to develop, preparing your curriculum vitae (CV), writing your job application letter, looking for student jobs to apply to and going through the recruitment process. You can use the half term break to prepare for all these.
Invest Time for the Long Term
There is more than vacationing during the half term break. Manage your time well so that you can make it beneficial to your studies and future career while still spending time to relax with family and friends.
