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We're inviting you to produce a video content for our TikTok, talking about any student-life and post-graduate topic of your choice. From tips you wished you'd known about at University, to what graduate career path you chose and an insight into your role - you could vlog what a day in your life looks like!

TikTok Competition | Share Your Career Journey

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Do you spend your evenings scrolling through TikTok or Instagram reels?

Or, are you an aspiring video content creator yourself?

Have fresh TikTok video ideas?

Like a competition, this is free to enter – but with this TikTok comp, you win every time!

Share your career journey or aspirations on our growing TikTok channel, and you will bag yourself a £20 Amazon voucher!

After the success of our Student Writing Blog Programme, we’re excited to announce the launch of our Student and Graduate TikTok Programme.

Don’t miss this opportunity to take over our TikTok, develop your video editing skills and have your content published to 10,000+ grads & students!

It’s simple, share your professional career journey or future career goals by creating a TikTok video for our channel.

How to enter the TikTok competition:

1. Fill in the sign-up form at the bottom of this blog with a few of your details.

2. Follow us on TikTok.

3. Read through our prompt questions and filming guidelines. Feel free to send us a test video to check if your video meets our requirements.

4. We’ll be in touch with the next steps!

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Who can take part in the TikTok competition?

This is open to graduates and students.

Whether you’re a graduate currently on your career journey, or a student making your career plans, we want to hear from you.

If you are a graduate, it doesn’t matter whether you’ve only recently started your first job, or if you’ve been in your role for some time now. We want to hear your journey.

And, if you are a student, don’t worry if you’ve secured a graduate job before your graduation, or if you’re planning out your next career moves. Your advice is still valuable!

Entering the workplace after university is difficult!

Your TikTok video could prove to be a helpful, comforting resource for struggling graduates and students.

Why should I take part in this TikTok video creator programme?

With so many graduates and students unsure of what career to pursue, your insights will be an invaluable resource.

You can provide direction, comfort, and a laugh or two! By doing so, others are more likely to feel more relaxed about adapting to workplace culture.

Your video will be published on our TikTok account with over 10K followers, with some of our videos reaching 1.9M views!

And your video content will also be shared on other social channels, reaching our network of 100K+ followers.

So, it’s both a great opportunity to help your peers, and also provide you with networking opportunities (your video will include a link to your LinkedIn profile).

Once your video has been published on our TikTok, you’ll receive a digital certificate and a LinkedIn badge to add to your profile, stating that you’ve taken part in our TikTok video creator programme.

You’ll receive a breakdown of how your TikTok content performed and the analytics rankings.

We’ll also share with you our best tips for making engaging TikTok videos, as well as how we promote our videos.

With this, you can apply marketing knowledge to your career, and get started creating your own online video content.

How do I get my £20 Amazon voucher for entering my video?

Once you send us your video, we will first check and approve the content.

Then, we’ll contact you to send a £20 Amazon voucher your way!

When your TikTok video is published, we’ll share your video across our social channels.

But, to gain more traction, we encourage all participants to share their video with friends, family, and a wider network to grow those TikTok views!

What kind of video should I create?

We’d love you to talk about your graduate career journey, from what you studied at University, anything that helped you land your new role and what a ‘day in your life’ looks like in your job.

We’ve put together a list of prompt questions to help structure your video – you don’t have to answer all the questions, feel free to come up with your own additional questions. We’d love to see new TikTok ideas !

If you are a student/graduate who is currently career planning:
- What is your name? Type of job roles, industries and companies you are looking at?
- What attracts you/makes you want to apply to those particular roles/industries/companies?
- What are you studying at University? And how do you expect your degree to help you in your job search?
- How do you think the skills from your degree match the skills needed for your career aspirations?
- Is there anything extra you are doing at university to help land a job in (X) role/ (X) industry (e.g. work experience/societies)?
- What are you learning throughout the job hunting process?
- Do you have any role or sector specific CV/ interview advice for other students?
- What are your career aspirations guided by – development, salary, or skills etc and why?
- Are you hoping that your future role will be a graduate scheme? If so, in your opinion how do you think a grad scheme differs and what are the benefits or drawbacks of choosing a graduate scheme over a graduate job?
- Describe your dream future job in 3 words – and 3 skills that will help you get there
- What do you expect the best part of your job as an (X) will be?
- What do you expect the most challenging part of your role as an (X) will be?
- What skills do you think will be the most crucial to succeeding in your career?
- Where do you hope to see your career progressing?
- How long to you expect to stay in your future role and why?
- What kind of career progression does your future role offer?
- Anything you wished you knew when you first started out your career planning process?
- Where do you hope to see your career heading after graduation?
If you are a student who has a job lined up post-graduation:
- What is your name? Future job title and company you will be working at?
- What are you studying at University? And did your degree help you in securing your graduate role?
- Is there anything extra you did (or others can do) to help land a job in (X) role/ (X) industry?
- What did you learn throughout the job hunting process?
- Do you have any role or sector specific CV/ interview advice for other students?
- What attracted you/made you want to apply to this particular role and company?
- What do you expect a typical day in your role as a (X) to look like?
- Is your future role a graduate scheme? If it is, in your opinion how do you think a grad scheme differs and what are the benefits or drawbacks of choosing a graduate scheme over a graduate job?
- Describe your future job in 3 words
- What do you expect the best part of your job as an (X) will be?
- What do you expect the most challenging part of your role as an (X) will be?
- What skills do you think will be the most crucial to succeeding in your career?
- Where do you hope to see your role progressing?
- How long to you expect to stay in your future role and why?
- What kind of career progression does your future role offer?
- What advice would you give to someone trying to succeed in appling for (X) role?
- What advice would you give someone interviewing for (X) role?
- Anything you wished you knew when you first started out your application process?
- Where do you see your career heading?
If you are a working graduate in employment:
- What is your name? Current job title and company you are working at?
- What did you study at University? And did your degree help you in your role today?
- Is there anything extra you did (or others can do) to help land a job in (X) role/ (X) industry?
- What did you learn throughout the job hunting process?
- Do you have any role or sector specific CV/ interview advice for other graduates?
- What attracted you/made you want to apply to this particular role and company?
- What does a typical day look like in your role as a (X)?
- Are there any expectations you had about this career path that you have found differed to reality, in both a good or bad way?
- Is your current role a graduate scheme? If it is, in your opinion how do you think a grad scheme differs and what are the benefits or drawbacks of choosing a graduate scheme over a graduate job?
- Describe your job in 3 words
- What is the best part about your job as an (X) role?
- What has been the most challenging part of your role so far in (X) industry?
- What skills are the most crucial to succeeding in this career? What type of person do you need to be?
- How have you progressed in your role since you started?
- What has been your greatest achievement in your role so far?
- What advice would you give someone looking to start a career as a (X role)?
- What advice would you give someone about to start their first day as a (X) role?
- Anything you wished you knew when you first started out in this industry/ role?
- Where do you see your career heading?
If you have used Give a Grad a Go to find a job:
- Why did you choose to find a job through Give a Grad a Go?
- How would you describe the service you received from your recruiter at Give a Grad a Go?
- What did you think about the recruitment process with Give a Grad a Go?
- Would you recommend Give a Grad a Go to a friend?
- If you could sum up your experience with Give a Grad a Go in one word, what would it be?
- If you used any other recruitment agencies, what makes Give a Grad a Go better than other recruitment agencies?
Make sure you follow these guidelines to ensure your video is eligible to be entered into the TikTok competition:
- Use a neutral or white background
- Wear some smart clothing
- Use a window or lamp for bright lighting
- Make sure to film in a quiet location
- Film in portrait and high definition
- Send a minimum of 1-minute total video length

If you’d like to see if your filming set-up meets our TikTok video requirements, please send us a quick test video and we will then be in touch with any tips and adjustments.

- Competition entries must follow the video guidelines outlined above, Give a Grad a Go can refuse to submit entries which do not follow these. Please check with us prior if you are unsure.
- By entering this TikTok video programme you are giving Give a Grad a Go the rights to own the video and we are free to share across all of our social platforms.
- Successful entrants will receive a £20 Amazon voucher via email.
- Entrants will be contacted via email address.
- You can only submit one video entry each 12 months.
- All entrants must be following our TikTok account.
- Give a Grad a Go accepts no responsibility for incomplete, late or corrupted entries.
- Entrants must reside in the UK or Australia.
- By entering this competition, entrants consent to their name and video being mentioned in a post on Give a Grad a Go’s page.
- Prizes are non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for a cash alternative.
- Give a Grad a Go reserves the right to offer an alternative prize should the requested item not be available.
- Give a Grad a Go reserves the right to cancel this competition or amend these terms and conditions.
- The promoter’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered.
- This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with TikTok or Amazon.