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Business Masters: Get a sense of direction

Graduating from university wasn't quite the victory that Alex Lefley, 22, had hoped it would be. The first problem was that he had a degree in geography. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it does have fewer obvious career options than a degree in, say, accounting or engineering. His second challenge was that he got a 2.2. The graduate market is incredibly competitive now and I realised I needed something to make me more employable, he says.

Like a growing number of graduates, Lefley opted for one of the raft of business postgraduate courses now on offer to non-vocational graduates. "I wanted to get a greater overall understanding of how modern business works and I hoped employers would notice a vocational Masters more than my first, non-vocational degree," explains Lefley, who did an MSc in marketing at Norwich Business School. Click here to read more.
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