The Graduate Market in 2012

This study of graduate vacancies and starting salaries at one hundred of the UK's leading employers, conducted by High Fliers Research during December 2011, reveals that despite the uncertain economic outlook, there will be more graduate vacancies available for university-leavers in 2012 - making it the third consecutive year that the number of graduate jobs has increased.

Although the report shows that employers expect to hire 6.4% more graduates in 2012 than they did in 2011, it also warns that graduates from the 'Class of 2012' who have had no work experience at all whilst at university stand little or no chance of getting a job offer from the country's most prestigious graduate employers – and that a record 36% of this year's graduate vacancies are expected to be filled by applicants who have already worked for the organisation during their studies.

AGCAS
Jan 12