Friday afternoon often gives time to look what’s out there on the news wires about the subject we’re all grasping with. Finding gainful employment and increasing your chances of doing so. All the better when the advice isn’t coming from someone like me and instead is coming from someone who like you is facing up to the reality of graduate job hunting as we speak.

Let me introduce you to Disillusioned Classics Grad from The Guardian and her new found view points on the value of volunteering. Look out for my particular hot topics of the value of things that get you out the house and help expand your network of contacts. And if it lights a spark let me introduce you to Time Bank, the latest find of mine concerning volunteering opportunities in your local area.