GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT

Graduate unemployment in Britain is falling but when it comes to getting a job some courses do better than others.

While language and computer science graduates enjoy below-average rates of unemployment, those who have read creative arts and design, social studies, politics and economics suffer higher rates.

Those from the newest universities do worse than those from the established alumnae. Vocational courses have lower unemployment levels than more academic courses, such as English and history.

Typically the lowest unemployment levels are among the medical, dental and veterinary sciences, agriculture and architecture graduates.

A survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters, representing some of the bigger and more traditional graduate employers, found that there were more than 50 graduates applying for every vacancy. On average most graduates make about 60 applications.

Although more and more graduates are finding employment there is a question mark over what kind of work they are finding and how underemployed are these new armies of highly skilled workers. The latest statistics show that, while the vast majority were getting management, professional and technical jobs worthy of a degree, something like 16pc were getting clerical and secretarial jobs and another 9pc were getting jobs in sales. All over London there are rooms full of graduates trying to sell everything from stationery to advertising space on a commission-only basis. Some of these seemingly no-graduate jobs are stop-gap positions, some are stepping stones and some, though they may have a clerical title, are in fact quite high-powered computer positions.

The main growth in graduate employment has come not through the traditional employers taking on more graduates but smaller more entrepreneurial companies also realising that they too need their share of brain power if they are to compete. So if companies of whatever size want to recruit intelligence and people they can train, they have to go to the graduate pool.

It is also true that with the labour market breaking up and moving away from the old certainties, new careers are opening up all the time and the old problem of graduates "not knowing what to do" is as acute as ever. Many have a much better idea of what they don't want to do than what they really want. Many will never know what they want to do until they have tried a few jobs and got some insight from the inside of the jobs market rather than the outside.

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