Graduates have to apply for as many jobs as they can
because of the increase in applicants per
job
The UK’s major graduate employers predict that
graduates are under going a significant change in the recruitment process due
to the changing tactics of British graduates.
Companies are preparing to counter the
graduates who are more likely to drop out late in the process this
year. This is due to candidates applying for multiple schemes to
increase their chances of landing a graduate job.
This comes after a recent report outlining
that one fifth of all new graduates are currently unemployed, the
highest figure in a decade. These latest figures highlight the
nightmare scenario faced by recent graduates who are carrying the
heavy burden of crippling debt for the sake of a degree to get
their dream job.
This figure is believed to equate to around
80,0000 graduates, and with a record number of 320,000 set to
graduate this year around 62,000 of these will be added to the
unemployment figures. Life for graduates is getting considerably
harder, with many firms only taking graduates who have done an
unpaid internship and tuition fees rising.
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College
Union (UCU), said: ‘Today’s graduate unemployment figures are
further bad news for students and young people. The coalition has
slashed university budgets, tripled tuition fees, axed vital
support for college students and the Future Jobs Fund.
‘Those who do make it through university are
going to face a difficult job market without support, but saddled
with record levels of debt. She said a ‘whole generation would be
consigned to the scrapheap of inactivity’ if the Government did not
make immediate investment in education and jobs.
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