So you just graduated and now you are looking for a job, but a career doesn’t look too good in your major. Let’s say you took a part-time job or an internship, and you didn’t have the same passion anymore, or the employment opportunities are scarce in your field.

Don’t panic.

Getting a job outside your major is nothing to be scared of. There are those jobs that require their specific degree. If you want to be a nurse or a doctor, you must have a medical degree, but most career fields today are more or less accessible with other degrees.

Your degree will never be irrelevant.

If you are looking for a job, what the employers are looking for is the skills and knowledge that you have gained in the past. They don’t care that much about what degree you hold. As long as you hold a degree and you are fit for the job, they will give you a chance.

What matters the most is YOU. You need to find the right path where you will have room to grow in order to use your potentials to the fullest. The knowledge you learn from you classes and assignments in university does not always determine your career field

Why your major doesn’t matter that much

Taking a job in a different field than your major isn’t a big deal. In fact in the future probably more people will be switching their industry than before. The marketplace is changing all the time and the employers are looking for skills not grades.

Here are some of the things that matter more than what major you have studied:

• Experience. Whatever job you get after your degree, employees look for the experience you have learned and the skills you have acquired in whatever undertakings you have had in the past. Skills can be learnt and transformed into new environments. In fact having a different major that the industry may give you the advantage of a fresh new perspective

• Skills.

          There are a bunch of skills that are necessary for working in any company.

          Just to name a few:

• Written and oral communication
• Research and analysis
• Problem-solving abilities
• Working in a team
• Decision making
• Innovation
• Emotional intelligence

By working at any company you will learn these skills, so when you are trying for a new job, or a job outside your major, the employer will want to know whether you have these skills. Then you need to be able to learn new skills which brings us to the next point.

• Adaptability. If your major is not same as the job you are applying, you need learn how to adapt to new things. Well, even if your major is the same as the job you are applying for, you will need to adapt to things. But if you are applying for a different major, then you need to be more adaptive. Learning new concepts may not be the hardest part. Unlearning what you were taught in your three years of degree will be.