Internet & Ecommerce
Although you don’t need a degree for these roles, as a graduate you will have gained a wide knowledge of the internet and programming skills that will come in help you on your way. There are specific degrees in internet communications, networking, web communications, ecommerce and e-business that you can study to gain solid foundations in your chosen careers. Currently the way to keep progressing in your career is to keep up to date with new software and technology that comes through so that you can be at the fore front of your industry. This may be done through magazine/journal reading, attending courses and looking for information on the internet.

New Media
As a fashionable, popular industry, getting that first full-time job in the many types of media and new media is highly competitive and requires experience to stand out from an ever growing crowd of hopefuls. Once in the media there will be plenty of opportunities to learn on the job or courses you can attend as you get more involved, but getting in is not so easy.

Graduates with degrees in more vocational media courses such as Film or Photography may well be given the chance to do a work placement and that is an ideal way to make future contacts. Make sure you network as best you can if given the opportunity. If not, then try to organise something productive and related to your preferred career path for your vacations - working part time in a café may pay for a few student bills, but it will not help you build a strong CV for a media job. Even if you can only spare one day a week, do so as you will reap the benefits when you leave university.Non-vocation specific degrees that are useful in media include any Media Studies course or its variants such as Media Design, Communication Studies along with more theoretical courses in the arts such as English.

Once graduated you may be able to get onto a training scheme with a major media company if available or might want to take a short vocational training course. The smaller (and most major) media companies tend to want only people with experience or proven ability, but an internship or unpaid work with them is worth exploring if you can afford to go without full-time work for a month or so.