I read this amazing bit of research today that nearly half, 45%, of the final year undergraduates at 30 of the top universities in the UK feel that their careers prospects are limited.

Further more a third of the graduates thought that last years graduates (2009) would take most of the current graduate jobs out in the marketing.

And only 36% thought that they would look for a graduate job once they left university in 2010.  Also for the 2nd year in a row the graduate job salary expectations dropped to under £22k.

Managing director of High Fliers Research, Martin Birchall, said: "Final year students due to leave UK universities this summer are just as pessimistic about their employment prospects as those who graduated 12 months ago.


"The recession may be officially over, but, with a record number of students due to complete degrees in the coming weeks and tens of thousands of last year's graduates still looking for work, there is widespread concern on campus that competition for graduate jobs has never been fiercer."

However this contradicts what we are seeing out in the market with many of our clients recruiting and many cases salaries over the average of £22k. 

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