What Should I Do After University?
The honest answer is that almost nobody has this fully figured out at graduation, no matter how confident everyone else looks online. It's worth starting from that, because a lot of the panic around this question comes from assuming everyone else already knows.
The pressure to have a plan
Final year comes with an unspoken expectation that you should be walking straight into a graduate scheme or a clear next step. In reality, career paths are rarely that linear, and a slower, more deliberate start is not a failure, it's just a different route to the same place.
Why your degree doesn't have to define your career
A significant number of graduates end up in careers with little direct connection to what they studied, and that's normal, not a wasted degree. What a degree actually demonstrates, the ability to research, structure an argument, manage a long project, work independently, transfers into far more careers than the subject title suggests.
The real question worth asking
"What should I do" is less useful than "what am I actually good at, and where does that overlap with something I'd enjoy." The second question has an answer that can actually be found. The first one usually can't, because it assumes a single correct path exists, and it rarely does.
How to actually find that overlap
Reading about careers helps a little. Actually trying a realistic slice of one helps far more, because it shows you something a job description never can, how you'd actually handle the specific demands of that role. Try-a-Career lets you do exactly that, for as many directions as you're curious about, entirely free to start, with no commitment beyond fifteen minutes.
Every strength you demonstrate becomes part of your own Your Sky, a private, growing record you can build on with every exploration, whether you're testing one clear idea or genuinely starting from scratch.
You don't need a five-year plan at graduation. You need one honest next step, and a realistic way to test it before you commit.