Graduate (un)employment

[scotchbroth1]

Though my own DC are a long way off employment age, I can see this through myself, siblings, cousins and some friends. Yes it is a tough time for graduates to get work in the fields they have studied at university, but I find a lot are too proud to just take anything until this happens, be it bar, cleaning, hotels, retail or admin work etc. because they are 'too bright' for it. Huh, I have a postgrad and am a cleaner on minimum wage. Others of my aquaintance just claim benefits and refuse to take any of the easier jobs mentioned. Some 'universities' are truly worth going to and give you valuable skills. Others are just glorified colleges that serve to keep you sheltered for 3 or 4 years (and make money for the institutions) then people wonder why they can't get employment.

Is this a common trend?

ps, this is not meant as a benefit bash thread but more attitudes of graduates to their true self worth.

I have an engineering degree and for a while struggled to get a graduate job. I applied for work in Greggs and even my local chippie but was told I was overqualified and they didn't want to take someone who would leave soon. I applied to an agency for any job and they said they wanted to keep opportunities for those who could not get anything better due to lack of qualifications and that I should only look at graduate jobs. Eventually I got what I have now but it was a long haul.