Try to find a role that matches your skills
Graduates, when applying for a role, be sure to link your skills and experience from any part-time work with each of the requirements of the graduate position.
Graduates are increasingly working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This finding — from a recent Nevin Economic Research Institute study — may dim the hopes of some. But it seems less damning when considered alongside the fact that competition between employers to attract and retain the best talent can be intense; particularly given the 4% rate of unemployment here.
There will always be statistics. But whatever they may be, and whichever you choose to quote, some things don’t change. One of those is the fact that year after year graduates emerge onto the job market. Thereafter, chance and luck play a role, as do track-record, skill, confidence and enthusiasm.
