Graduates’ Labour Market Outcomes During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Occupational Switches and Skill Mismatch

Recent graduates are facing tough challenges in the labour market amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but overall graduates are more likely to be in employment than people without a degree

This Office for National Statistic (ONS) report looks at the impact of the coronavirus on the labour market outcomes of graduate workers in the UK, focusing on unemployment, occupational shifts and the skills mismatch.

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Leadership

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      string(4071) "ResourceCLASS OF 2010Original DocumentClass Of 2010 – Attitudes And Aspirations Of This Year’s Graduates. This report, published by Endsleigh, calls for a radical overhaul in the way that university careers services currently function. Responding to feedback from the first set of graduates to have gone through university through the recession, the research, carried out by think tank Demos, recommends that careers services are turned into not-for-profit recruitment consultancies for their respective universities, specialising in finding work for graduates in businesses local to the institution.KeywordsAttitudes, aspirations, graduates, university, careers, environment, employers, internshipsSummaryThis report, published by Endsleigh, calls for a radical overhaul in the way that university careers services currently function. Responding to feedback from the first set of graduates to have gone through university through the recession, the research, carried out by think tank Demos, recommends that careers services are turned into not-for-profit recruitment consultancies for their respective universities, specialising in finding work for graduates in businesses local to the institution.The report examined the Class of 2010s’ aspirations and concerns on issues such as university life, the job market, family and community life, politics and the environment.· Rising numbers of graduates are prioritizing commitments to care for their children and parents in their old age (a third of male graduates are willing to sacrifice their career in order to care full time for their children).· Graduates are prioritizing work/life balance and social relevance of their job over starting salary. 89% of graduates rate climate change as an important global issue and a quarter of graduates would turn down a job offer if the employers environmental credentials weren’t up to scratch.· One of the key conclusions of the report proposes a role that universities and local businesses might be able to play in assisting graduates find work. The recommended change to the function of the careers service is expected to:· Reduce the graduate skills gap and graduate unemployment· Foster a closer relationship between the student and their careers service over the course of their degree· Assist universities in raising additional funds that would be channelled into education and training activities as well as into small grants to encourage student and graduate enterprise· Help the government’s localism agenda by encouraging graduates to live and work in a town or city close to their university· The report recommends that those employees working for the careers service would not be paid by commission to ensure that the students’ best interests are maintained.Another key recommendation to come out of the report focuses on the role of internships. Internships were seen as one of the most valuable and sought after positions for today’s graduates. According to the findings, there was a huge disparity between the types of internships on offer when it came to issues such as pay, quality and length of placement. The recommendations for internships are to:· Create a legal definition for internships – similar to the new legal definition of apprenticeships in 2009[i] – that focuses on their purpose in supporting the transition from education to employment· Conduct further research to understand the qualitative differences between paid and unpaid internships to ensure that the best quality internships are protected· Create an Internship Charter that employers are legally obliged to uphold if they offer unpaid internships that sets limits on length of internships and provides measures to ensure equal opportunity in recruitmentActionNotesAuthorRaspal Chima, Imaginative MindsDate CreatedSeptember 2010Enquiries to:raspal.chima@yahoo.co.uk (Authoring Unit)Month / YearPage 1 of 1©Birmingham City Council"
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Leadership

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16 Sep 2010

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