Graduates are unlikely to have experience. Unless you make friends with people who mirror you identically, why not share experiences and skills to help your unemployed friends develop skills, bulk up their CV and become a more well-rounded person.
If you know a grad (or anybody I suppose) looking for a job, and you feel that you have a skill you could share, find out what you could exchange. I know how to use Social Media. So I could approach my friend who is hapless at using Twitter and offer an exchange to develop my dressmaking skills.
Why not set up a skill sharing site?
Right now, I want to learn/perfect/better myself at the following:
- Night time photography with SLR camera (see above photo for evidence of my lack of ability)
- HTML
- Graphic Design
- Advanced Yoga
- How to make sushi (I have the mats and rice and everything: I'm all set)
I can exchange the following skills and gifts:
- Piano lessons
- How to budget your travel
- How to find the cheapest airflights known to mankind
- Clarinet lessons
- Basic sketching
- Beginners adult ballet
- Thai food
- Mexican food
- Gluten free/vegan baking
- Social media skills
- General fitness/healthy eating
- Tapas.
Somewhere, there must be a match who wants to exchange what I have (essentially a greedy tummy who learnt how to cook shit) and has what I want.
Just a thought.
Back to the book.
