Classics is an immensely exciting area of study at present! Classicists, perhaps more so than many other scholars, have grasped the potential for digital technologies to innovate they ways they study their field. They've already laid much of the groundwork for future scholarship. Online databases like The Latin Library allow immediate searchable access to many of the canonical works for study, others like the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project preserve and give access to 3D models of inscriptions that might otherwise be inaccessible or lost, and every student of a Latin or Greek should be familiar with the powerful reference tools provided by the Perseus Digital Library.

There's also tremendous institutional investment among Classicists in the Digital Humanities (shorthand: DH). There's a clean and well-linked Wikipedia page on Digital Classics. A Google search turns up more links. Your adviser or someone more familiar with the field might help guide you toward the more important ones. And if you start following your interests on academia.edu (it'll require you to set up a profile page), I'm sure you'll find a number of other innovative approaches that might spark your interest, even if their authors aren't calling them Digital Humanities per se.

So the groundwork has been laid for research, and there's institutional support for research. What does this mean for employability? It means that there's tremendous resources out there to go make yourself more employable than your non-Classicist peers. Are you interested in mapping movement of people, things, and ideas? Then Classics is your field. Or perhaps you want to unpack how the categories we use impact statistics? That's also an approach that works well with Classics.

I'd recommend delving deeper into the things that you love. It'll challenge you to learn new things about the past, sure, but also to learn how to do new things yourself. You might well find something that sets you along an entirely new course as you gather the Classicist skills in research, analysis, synthesis, and argument that could make you a valued employee in almost any field. Bona fortuna!

I graduated in the summer from Nottingham with a degree in Ancient History. Worked hard and got a first and thought boom that'll get me a job right away. Applied to 94 jobs and then got offered two.

Be very prepared to apply to lots of things if you're planning on heading away from anything classics/history related. But hey you might get lucky.

Spend a bit of time really deciding what you want to do - or at least what you think you'd want to and you want to try. And then get a bit of experience in that area.

I had the idea I wanted to get into the drinks industry. As soon as I finished uni I got a qualification in wine and spirits which took like 6 weeks and was dead easy. That's what finally got me my job now at a company that makes tonic and mixers in London.

Thing is, don't underestimate getting experience or extra qualifications because these days it's fucking competitive. But also never think that the first job you get is where you'll be forever. You can do what the hell you like for a very long time and move about and do whatever until you're old and have kids.

Probably not very helpful sorry.