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Good news for graduate job hunters
Vacancies for jobs are still coming in for both recent graduates and those finishing this year. Our vacancy database MyFuture is being added to on a daily basis so keep checking. If you aren't fixed up yet there is good news for you from some of our top employers. According to research by High Fliers based on a survey of the organisations featured in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers conducted in December 2009, the UK's leading graduate employers have increased their recruitment targets for 2010 by 11.8%, compared with the number of graduates actually recruited in 2009, following two consecutive years of declining job opportunities for university-leavers. Vacancies dropped by 17.8% in 2009 and 6.7% in 2008.
Furthermore, the City's top investment banks are intending to hire a third more graduates than in 2009, after halving their recruitment over the last two years. There will also be substantial increases to the graduate intake at accountancy & professional services firms (up 13.9% compared to 2009), high street banks (up 30.2%) and retailers (up 21.3%).
Employers in ten of fourteen key industries and employment areas expect to recruit more graduates in 2010. Just three areas are predicting fewer graduate vacancies this year: consumer goods companies, engineering & industrial employers and the public sector.
Diane Hay
Director Careers Advisory Service