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knowledge. The other recipient’s wished they dream job when she was just a child was to
had realized the importance of developing represent Egypt, and is now able to do
their personal skills, as well as partake in exactly that.
training sessions that could have prepared We ended our interviews by offering our
them more for the labor market. esteemed graduates a chance to give and
Moving on, we asked our participants advice to FEPS's younger generations of
whether or not they had benefited from students, in which they all responded with
university, and how; we ended up gathering they believe is the key word to a successful
pretty much identical responses. They all academic journey; "Balance". They advise
stressed on the fact that after they graduated, everyone to learn to balance between leisure
they were introduced to a completely different time and the studying load, enjoy your time,
culture that they had been in before. Luckily, work hard, not to fear the future and to know
the faculty had changed the way they think, that you can get whatever job you want as
and had broadened their thoughts and long as you work hard for it. To conclude,
perspectives; thus, they were able to adapt and we, the editors of Elite, wish them all the
mature rapidly in the new world around them. best, and thank them so much for taking the
In other words, they had a complete switch in time to participate with us.
their personalities. Also, they discussed how
important all the subjects they took were, and
how they learned to deal with things in their
work lives, by basing of their past experiences
and taking their professors and somewhat of
mentors.
We believe that one of the most important
questions we asked were regarding how easy
it was to find a job, and did their job meet
their expectations or not. They discussed
how the period of hesitation and lost feeling
that comes after graduation is just a minor part
of everyone’s life. They also made it clear that
finding a job is not as hard and complicated as
people make it out to be, and was definitely
within reach. There were a few contradicting
answers regarding the fact if this was actually
their dream or not. Layla gave as an emotional
and very inspiring backstory as to how her
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