Graduates face competing with 70 other applicants for jobs
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/nearly-70-graduates-for-every-job...
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There's 70 graduates going for every job, according to depressing new figures released today.
New graduates in September will not only competing against uni leavers in their own year, they're also up against last year's job seekers, as a poll of employers reveals the number of applications for each vacancy has jumped to almost 70, while the number of available jobs has dropped by nearly 7%.
At the same time last year, there were 48 jobs for every vacancy.
The figures come from a poll of 200 employers including Cadbury, M&S, JP Morgan and Vodafone.
Their answers don't paint a positive picture for a large number of graduates. Nearly 78% of employers are insisting on a 2.1 degree, seeing a 2.2 as marginal and a third as grounds for completely ruling out a candidate.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/nearly-70-graduates-f...
New graduates in September will not only competing against uni leavers in their own year, they're also up against last year's job seekers, as a poll of employers reveals the number of applications for each vacancy has jumped to almost 70, while the number of available jobs has dropped by nearly 7%.
At the same time last year, there were 48 jobs for every vacancy.
The figures come from a poll of 200 employers including Cadbury, M&S, JP Morgan and Vodafone.
Their answers don't paint a positive picture for a large number of graduates. Nearly 78% of employers are insisting on a 2.1 degree, seeing a 2.2 as marginal and a third as grounds for completely ruling out a candidate.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/nearly-70-graduates-f...
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