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In brief (Spring 09)

In brief

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What do graduates really think about their jobs?

Real Prospects 2009 - a new annual survey

Real Prospects is a large scale quantitative project examining how recent graduates feel about their current jobs. Jointly administered by HECSU and Graduate Prospects, the online survey has attracted over 23,000 responses since it went live in January 2009.

With questions exploring how graduates feel about work-life balance and corporate social responsibility, as well as recruitment, training and management, the survey gives graduate employees a welcome opportunity to have their say.

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High Fliers Annual Survey

The graduate labour market in 2009

  • The UK’s leading graduate employers have reduced their recruitment targets for 2009 by 17% since the latest graduate recruitment round began in September 2008.
  • Graduate recruitment at the UK’s top employers did not increase by 11.8% in 2008 as recruiters had expected during the 2007-2008 recruitment season. Instead vacancies fell by 6.7% compared with graduate recruitment in 2007.
  • The three universities most-often targeted by Britain’s top graduate employers in 2008- 2009 are Manchester, London and Warwick.
  • Two-thirds of employers said they had received more completed graduate job applications during the early part of the recruitment season than they had last year, but applications to investment banks and other City employers dropped significantly.

For the full report go to:

http://www.highfliers.co.uk/

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Association of Graduate Recruiters Winter Survey

The state of graduate recruitment

Carl Gilleard, Chief Executive of the AGR said:

The predicted rise in jobs in 2008 simply did not occur. However, though we are set to see a drop in vacancies this year, the situation is certainly not as severe as it could be. We saw a sharper decrease in 2003, for example, when recruiters had a negative reaction to the dot.com crash. By and large, while no one doubts the seriousness of the current economic downturn, the picture for graduate recruitment, though worrying, could be bleaker. There are even some silver linings with growth predicted in the engineering and public sectors – both of which are likely to appeal to graduates seeking job security this year
  • Vacancies for graduates fall for first time since 2003 with a projected decrease of 5.4% in 2009
  • Banks expect massive 28% cut in number of vacancies
  • Engineering sector bucks the trend with expected 8.3% rise in jobs but there may be a shortfall of graduates to fill them
  • Graduate salaries frozen for the first time
  • Employers urge struggling graduates to research jobs and prepare for interviews more thoroughly than ever as competition intensifies

The AGR Graduate Recruitment Winter Survey 2009 is based on responses provided by 245 AGR members in November and December 2008.

For the full report go to:

http://www.agr.org.uk/

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Emerging Technologies -The Horizon Report 2009

What technologies will lead the way?

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies.

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5612.pdf

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New Skills for New Jobs

What jobs will be available in about 10 years? Is the training provided now useful to find a job tomorrow? Are skills needs and jobs changing all over the EU?

Adapting to change and ensuring the correct matching between labour market and supply is crucial if EU countries want to remain productive and competitive. The rapid change implies that EU countries have to become pro-active and be able to anticipate in order to be better prepared for future challenges. This is why EU Member States have asked the European Commission to report on future skills requirements in Europe up to 2020.

For further information:

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=568&langId=en

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£250m to create new wave of scientists and engineers for Britain

Its biggest ever investment in training the scientists and engineers Britain needs for the future was announced at the end of 2008 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Science minister Lord Drayson will announce a £250million initiative which will create 40 new training centres across the UK and generate over 2000 PhD students. The new centres will tackle some of the biggest problems currently facing Britain such as climate change, the energy crisis, our ageing population, crime and terrorism, and more. These new EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training represent a brand new approach to training scientists and engineers, focussing on the key challenges facing society and also equipping them with the business skills they need to turn pioneering ideas into products and services, boosting their impact on the UK’s economy.

For further information:

http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/default.htm

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How do they picture themselves now?

A survey of the early career paths of the Graduates of 2004 from the Yorkshire Universities

This survey provides insights into the destinations, motivations, aspirations and achievements of graduates from the 10 Yorkshire Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

• The main reason respondents reported for staying in the Yorkshire region was that they had got a job there, or they had friends or parents there. However, liking the region was also a major factor influencing graduates’ decisions to stay.

http://www.graduatesyorkshire.co.uk

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Employment circumstances and career satisfaction of 2004/05 cohort

Second longitudinal survey of graduate destinations

The first Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Longitudinal survey was carried out in November 2006 and contacted a sample of leavers who graduated in 2002/03. The same cohort had previously been surveyed 6 months after graduation. This November's survey will be sent to a sample of leavers who graduated in 2004/05. Six months after they graduated their pattern of destinations was very similar to that of the 2002/03 cohort at the same point. Will the recession affect the longer term prospects of this cohort? The new survey should provide some interesting answers.

Further information about the 2008/09 survey is available from the HESA website: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/content/view/112/154/.

The full report of the first DLHE Longitudinal survey is available here: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/dox/dlhe_longitudinal/0203/DLHE_Long_2002_03_FINAL.pdf