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Tough times for new entrants to job market
The latest CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook underlines the exceptionally challenging employment prospects facing this year's crop of school-leavers and graduates. It appears that almost half (45%) of all UK companies aren't planning to recruit from either of these groups - and the situation for school-leavers looks particularly...
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The banking, insurance and financial services sector enjoys great popularity among students with a Chinese ethnic background: over two-fifths (41.3%) have career ambitions in this area. The popularity of this field is also high, although less dramatically so, among students from an Indian background, with 29.2% planning to enter the sector.
