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HPD Jobs: Work wanes as students continue to persevere
HPD Jobs: Work wanes as students continue to persevere

By Simon Moore (Sydney, UNSW)

Jobs are getting more difficult to acquire for graduating students even with the assistance of websites such as HomepageDAILY jobs.

Many of us are undergoing the harrowing process of application after application. Some of us have moved onto interviews or are simply going freelance in the hope of being noticed.

Even if you are not too specific and have a wide array of skills it appears that employees want someone who is well grounded in a specific area. In this case Accountants get hired by Accounting firms, and engineers skip off to work with the big mining companies. Yet what happens if you never liked lego and absolutely abhor arithmetic?

One of the issues that can be found is that maybe there are too many people attending university. Today in the Sydney Morning Herald there was an article that discussed the growing concern for a lack of trades people that has spurned partly from industry failing to invest in training and recruitment.

We have the perennial art student who attends university for the sake of attending university. If you took a good portion of these students and placed them into hospitality or construction it may prove true that they find something they actually enjoy doing and stop wasting the time of educational facilities. If they shed concern on a reduced pay potential they should only examine their dwindling bank accounts as a student.

Another issue is that now an undergraduate degree is no longer enough to secure a graduate position, there is now a slow painful path of internships (so poorly paid that living as a student may appear a luxurious past) followed by more study.

Graduating students should be found a place in the workforce. It is fair that they receive some respite from the arduous nature of the combined lifestyle of study and work and be able to recuperate while gaining valuable work skills for a few years. Four years in the workforce can provide a company with a valuable and committed employee who has sufficiently saved to continue to live agreeably while embracing academic challenges once more.

In any case the momentum and status quo need to shift quickly because there are a growing number of frustrated yet intelligent people who will leave for greener pastures if the drought continues.

HomepageDAILY jobs also offers a wide array of graduate positions to be found around the globe from the America’s to the UK to downunder in Australia.

Are you currently undergoing the process of obtaining a graduate position? Where have you found the career opportunities truly lie? Think, reflect and remember... Disqus!!!

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