Ri5- War for talent ‘increases threefold’ June 19, 2013
- Invitation for employers of postgraduates June 18, 2013
- UK’s leading universities now ‘less representative’ June 18, 2013
- Shortlisted entries for AGR awards revealed June 17, 2013
- HECSU Blog
- High Fliers says work experience useful June 13, 2013
- 170 years of industrial change June 5, 2013
- New figures on the graduate jobs market May 20, 2013
- AGR
- Shortlisted entries for AGR awards revealed June 18, 2013
- Interview with Carl Gilleard, Chief Exec of the Association of Graduate Recruiters June 14, 2013
- Job seekers: Frustrations mark road towards fulfilment June 5, 2013
- Why the Guardian university guide is the one to watch June 5, 2013
- AGR tells employers 'break down barriers for disadvantaged grads' May 28, 2013
Category Archives: Graduate Labour Market Updates
Work experience three times more likely to land graduate job
The latest High Fliers research – “Class of 2013″ (published 13 June 2013) – reveals that students who completed an internship or other vacation work with employers during their studies were three times more likely to receive a definite job … Continue reading
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Destinations 2012 schools data published
The Careers Centre has just published individual reports for schools and departments at The University of Reading, showing details of the first steps into work and further study of those completing courses in 2012. As well as summaries of main … Continue reading
First Destinations of Disabled Graduates
No new data, but the authors have conducted some useful analysis over the lifetime of the series of these reports, and comment on longer-term trends. The report details the experience of graduates from specific groups and aims to challenge many widely-established … Continue reading
Careers Centre Labour Market Summary
Summary of paper presented at the May meeting the Student Development and Employability Sub-Committee… view now »
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Modest increase in graduate vacancies
From HECSU blog – http://hecsu.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/incomes-data-services-have-just.html -Incomes Data Services (IDS) has just released their new survey of graduate starting salaries They see a modest increase in the number of graduate vacancies this year – up about 8% on last year
Graduate labour market – not all doom and gloom!
AGCAS Vacancy Survey The AGCAS Vacancy Survey differs from those of AGR and High Fliers, which question recruiters for larger companies’ graduate training schemes. Universities carry vacancies for organisations from across the economic spectrum, including smaller companies and the not-for-profit … Continue reading
Salaries frozen for new graduates but upturn in opportunities
Graduate starting salaries are set to fall to their lowest real-terms level since 2003 this summer as 90 per cent of businesses freeze their offers to recruits, according to analysis released by Incomes Data Services (IDS). But graduate recruitment is … Continue reading
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Graduates in the labour market – ONS Report
Yesterday (6th March), the ONS produced an update from the Labour Force Survey about graduates in the labour market, with the strapline “Recent graduates more likely to work in lower skill jobs than a decade ago”. The proportion of recent graduates … Continue reading
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Tagged HECSU, Labour Force Survey, ONS
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What does 2012 hold for the jobseeking scientist?
Published in The New Scientist this week, Charlie Ball, Deputy Director of HECSU, writes that things are looking up for science graduates this summer: here’s one prediction for 2012 that is definitely going to be correct – the majority of … Continue reading
Graduate jobs market expected to hold steady
The newly-published winter edition of the Association of Graduate Recruiters’ biannual survey foresees a marginal decline of 1.2% in its member firms’ graduate intakes this year. While less optimistic than the recent High Fliers Research prediction of a 6.4% increase … Continue reading
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