{"id":4258,"date":"2012-06-02T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/10-things-every-graduate-should-know-before-they-start-job-hunting\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T04:20:58","slug":"10-things-every-graduate-should-know-before-they-start-job-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/10-things-every-graduate-should-know-before-they-start-job-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things every graduate should know before they start job hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDespite lower salaries, more unpaid positions and a recession, it’s not all doom and gloom for graduate jobseekersIf the 370,000 students set to graduate from UK universities this summer know just one thing, it’s that the party is over. Figures from employment website Totaljobs show one in three graduates is claiming jobseeker’s allowance and a quarter of graduates haven’t had a single interview.Huge numbers of roles posted on graduate “job boards” are, in fact, lengthy unpaid internships \u2013 and research from Incomes Data Services found that those lucky enough to find paid work will discover their starting salary is 2% lower than it was for the class of 2011. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Despite lower salaries, more unpaid positions and a recession, it’s not all doom and gloom...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-16G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62238,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/unpaid-internships-damage-long-term-graduate-pay-prospects\/","url_meta":{"origin":4258,"position":0},"title":"Unpaid internships damage long-term graduate pay prospects","date":"July 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Study shows working for free leads to salary disadvantage Almost every graduate taking an unpaid internship can expect to be worse off three years later than if they had gone straight into work.That is the shock finding of the first survey of its kind of the career trajectories of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22676,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/graduates-look-overseas-as-jobs-dry-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":4258,"position":1},"title":"Graduates look overseas as jobs dry up","date":"July 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\r With 70 applicants for every UK graduate job, could applying abroad be the answer? 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