Graduate Schemes Less Than Likely

Ok, I tried. I tried really hard to understand the maths, the percentages and numbers and place them in scenarios. But after spending 3hrs yesterday failing to get through a 30 minute practice numerical test I've decided that I'm not even slightly prepared for graduate recruitment, especially the recruiters who's grade requirements go back to GCSE level. Lesson learnt; preparation, preparation and preparation. I'm usually good at this but I blame the timing of our semester dates for failing to have a Festival of Careers at an earlier date, preferable not a week before the deadline for most graduate recruiters or at least the ones I spoke to. I should of considered wider options than probation when I first realised how much work experience I'd need to get such a role and the fact that the government prefer profit over public service. Despite missing deadlines for graduate jobs I'm not even sure that I want, I'll still take a good look at them after I've graduated and focus on a few (rather than many), when I have the time to improve my maths and research properly without worrying about how I plan to interview homeless people in the street and all the ethical issues that come with a criminology dissertation.

To be honest I didn't study criminology to work for a company, I studied it because I want to work with ex-offenders or youth offenders or become a social worker or more recently a clinical probation officer (providing I gain at least a 2:1 in my Clinical Issues module), and I'm fairly sure all of these roles require little mathematical understanding but more decision making exercises which I'm usually good at. I know I don't want to work for the Police after volunteering with them for a short time last year. I'm still trying to decide how the work experience I have as a Leicester Ambassador is relevant to social work... Maybe travelling would be an option, I've been told about some good programmes that pay well to teach English abroad and my house mate has applied for JET. Maybe I'll be a travelling social worker....