Ten top tips for choosing your course 1. You do not need to pick a degree with a job name in the title in order to have a fulfilling and successful life! Of course, in order to become a medical doctor you will have to study extremely hard for a medicine degree for many years but the vast majority of jobs and careers do not require a specific degree 2. A degree can be used as a stepping stone – it shows an employer that you have a certain level of those all-important transferable skills which are so vital in the workplace. Job adverts tend to ask for ‘graduates, or those with equivalent experience’ ie the people who have degrees or who worked their way up the company. What that means is you s