Transcript RGU:Careers Centre Quiz

RGU:Careers Centre
The graduate employment quiz
Guidance Teachers Open Day 7 May 08
Will Ritchie
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Fiona kennedy
Careers Consultants
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Graduate Salaries
The average salary offered by graduate recruiters advertising in
the 2007/8 issue of the Prospects Directory is £24,048
representing a 4.4% increase on last years figure
However, this figure is likely to be higher than averages sourced
from student surveys because..
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Figures are mainly from large companies/organisations
Many vacancies are in London
Vacancies are aimed specifically at graduates
Significant number of graduates obtain posts not aimed at
holders of degrees
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Graduate Salaries
• The highest salary is offered to graduates entering the graduate
area management trainee programme with a nationwide retailer.
• The next highest salaries, at £38,000 and £36,000 are for
trainee solicitors working in London
• The lowest salaries, at £14,732 and £15,300, are for support
workers for a charity organisation and graduate management
trainees for a leisure company, respectively
(Prospects directory)
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Sectors set to expand...
(Future Skills Scotland)
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84,000 new jobs are expected to be created in Scotland in the next
decade – an additional 922,000 job openings will arise to replace
workers who leave employment.
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Public & private sector service industries will expand
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Employment will fall in primary (except in the energy industry) &
manufacturing industries
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Business services, retail & distribution and health & social work will
account for just under half of all jobs in Scotland by 2017
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There will be an increased demand for highly qualified workers and
decrease in demand for unqualified workers
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Sectors set to expand...
• For graduates the fastest growing group of occupations has
been in social and welfare. Locally, this has been in
engineering.
• This accounted for 3.7% of graduate employment in 2006.
• Social work was the most important occupation for graduates in
this sector. (What do graduates do 2008)
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More graduate vacancies...
(AGR Winter Poll)
• Graduate vacancies have risen for five years and are at their
highest level this decade.
• Graduate vacancies will be 16.4% higher than last year.
• However, the expected shortage of well-qualified candidates
‘makes worrying reading ‘ (AGR Chief Executive Carl Gilleard)
• Shortage of people with the right skills (employability) is a
common theme.
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Increasingly firms are recruiting from overseas
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Skills employers seek...
According to CIPD 2007 survey2 the most popular skills
found in employer competency frameworks are, in order:
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communication skills
people management
team skills
customer service skills
results-orientation
Problem solving.
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Vacancies for graduates
• 66 percent of vacancies advertised ( Prospects) are open to
graduates of any discipline
• Engineering and technology (one in six vacancies) is most in
demand
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The Robert Gordon University
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The top Scottish university for graduate employment
- The Good University Guide 2007
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Best modern university in Scotland
- The Times Newspaper
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4th best university in the UK for graduate level employment
behind Cambridge, Imperial College and London School of
Economics
- The Times and the Telegraph newspapers
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98 percent of employers were satisfied with RGU graduates
performance in the workplace
(RGU Survey – quoted in The Times Aug 2007)
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Employment of RGU Graduates
First Degree Undergraduate Locations of Employment
2004/05
10%
2% 1%
Aberdeen
Rest of Scotland
26%
Rest of UK
61%
Europe
Rest of World
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Employment of RGU Graduates
First Degree Undergraduate Locations of Employment
2005/06
7%
3% 1%
Aberdeen
Rest of Scotland
25%
Rest of UK
64%
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Europe
Rest of World
Please note all information correct as at
2 May 08
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