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Graduate job confidence slumps to fifteen-year low
A recent survey of this year's finalists by High Fliers Research reveals that confidence in the graduate employment market has hit a fifteen-year low. The research was based on face-to-face interviews with over 16,000 final-year students - roughly a fifth of those due to graduate this year from the thirty universities included in the...
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The qualities students of IT/computer science set the greatest store by in an employer are job security, considered ‘very important’ by 55%, and – like economics students - development and training, viewed as ‘very important’ by 51%. By contrast, almost as many IT students see a chance to work abroad as ‘unimportant’ (19%) as consider this ‘very important’ (22%).
