A quarter of graduate engineers taking non skilled
or non graduate jobs after
university
A new report indicates that graduate engineers
are having a hard time getting into graduate level positions related to their degree
with many taking ‘unskilled’ positions in shops or restaurants.
Many key figures within industry have highlighted that this may be
to do with poor quality of engineering graduates coming through
universities however a new report from Birmingham University
questions this.
The report called ‘is there a shortage of
scientists’ was based on the proportion of engineering and science
based graduates entering related jobs between 1986 to 2009 and it
suggests that less than half of engineering graduates entered
related jobs with only 46% finding relevant graduate jobs, 20% were
in unrelated roles and 24% were in non graduate employment.
The report went on to argue that it was
unlikely that there is a shortage of quality science based
graduates such as in engineering and rather it was more likely
that there was no jobs waiting for all of these graduates or
that graduates were dropping out of courses.
Emma Smith Author of the report commented ‘It
is astonishing, in the light of claims of science graduate
shortages, that so few new graduates go into related employment.
The figures suggest it is not easy or automatic for qualified
engineers to get related employment in the UK, despite the
purported shortages."
However the CBI still argue that quality is
still an issue and that graduates must branch out and get work
experience and graduate positions that will enable them to
“develop
skills like team-working and self-management to have the best
possible chance of finding a job."
Professor Nigel Seaton also argued that
engineering degrees are perhaps undervalued and that they are
good degrees that equip graduates for many graduate jobs such as
management, finance and more.
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