Graduate Jobs Quiz ANSWER sheet
1. Six months after graduating what percentage of PHILOSOPHY graduates
(03 leavers) were believed to be out of work?
Insert figure relevant to YOUR HEI using DLHE data
2. What proportion of Arts graduates from the University of XXXXXX are in
sub-graduate jobs, six months after graduating?
Insert figure relevant to YOUR HEI using DLHE data
3. Eighteen months after graduating, nationally what percentage of graduates
from all subjects secure graduate level jobs?
= A total of 89% were in a job requiring a degree, or which used graduate level skills. [Working Out?
Short Report, CSU 1999 p 12]
4. So the majority of Arts and Humanities graduates get full time jobs related
to their career plans?
True or False?
= False because only 39.6% of those who had taken Arts or Humanities subjects were in full time
work related to their long term career plans 18 months after graduation [Working Out? CSU 1999 Short Report
p6]
5. Will you get a job with a ‘big’ company? In 1999 about 260,000 students
graduated in the UK (the number has gone up since); at the same time, how
many vacancies for new graduates were advertised by employers belonging to
the Association of Graduate Recruiters in the UK?
= In 1999, according to the Guardian Survey Graduates in the Eyes of Employers, companies in the Association of
Graduate Recruiters expected to offer 18, 500 vacancies. In the same year 265,000 students graduated with a degree
from UK HEIs [HESA SFR 45]. NB fig for those graduating with degree / higher degree (FT) home / overseas =
300,000 approx 02 leavers HESA that is the big recruiters have enough jobs for about 7 % of grads
6. How much will you earn? The average starting salary nationally for graduate
level jobs in the year up to Sept 02 was?
= The average salary offered to graduates during the year to September 2002 was £17,986, virtually the same as the
figure of £18,309 from the same period a year earlier. To find out more, you can use the searchable salary database
based on Prospects Today advertisements Prospects web
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/How_much_could_I_earn_/Salary_and_vacancy_FAQs/p!ed
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£13,400 = the av salry for all grads from the
NatWest Student Money Matters 2002 survey
involved around 2,000 graduates, undergraduates and sixth formers across England and Wales. For graduates who
graduated in 2001, the average starting salary was £13,422.
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