Does your Graduate child have a job?

[Karma2023]

The volume of advertised jobs for Graduates is apparentely at a historical low which is obviously worrying for students and their parents.

Just interested in sharing experience and perhaps offering assistance to those going through the job hunting process.

Has your young person secured a job? If so what subject did they do and how did they find the role?

I have a dc who secured an internship this summer, he is studying STEM and found the job directly from the company site. He is hoping to get a return job offer however he hasn't loved the job so will be looking for other opportunities. He may take a year out and improve his language skills as it might add to his CV.

HR protocols demand that all schools keep full records of the recruitment process for six months, in case of challenge to the appointment.

Any candidate can make a challenge.

There is another side to having staff from a range of backgrounds in schools. Schools in my area, with a significant Asian, but majority white community, have a full complement of white British staff with nobody from any other background or white British teachers and the lunch staff, cleaners, caretakers are Asian (or pre Brexit, Eastern European.
Role models and aspiration are important for all pupils. They need to see that they can achieve.

Amazed that London boroughs are that competitive. A few years back a neighbour of mine went back into primary teaching having had a few years out. For her first job back in teaching she commuted into East London.

She said it was a tough commute and a tough job, but that was where the demand was.

@HappySonHappyMum
I am surprised with most of what you say. Firstly the 'white thing' - I taught for years in Bradford, my son teaches in Bradford and my sister was a headteacher in Bradord - all the schools predominantly (95%) Muslim. On a form we would be White British. I have recruited as a governor at a Catholic primary - it is a desirable requirement and people do not ask in 'a round about way' at interview. They appoint the best candidate. I honestly think calling it 'the white thing' says more about you than the schools who for whatever reason decided your daughter wasn't the best candidate on the day.

I'd agree with you about her being the 'best' candidate if there had been any interaction at that point. All the candidates were sitting in a room - her and two other white candidates were called out side and told that they would not be proceeding to interview today. Blatent.

Was this the visit or start of the selection day?

Had she completed the application form?

Will she challenge the selection process?

@Boodahh A returning teacher is not one straight out of training. Yes your neighbour would cost more but had a track record. They would not need as much mentoring or a reduced timetable.

It was at the beginning of the interview day - and she didn't challenge it because she was selected for interview from a borough pool and was worried about being blacklisted if she complained.

The point is she couldn't get a job more locally and we are 2 counties out from London.

So in East London they had more of a recruitment strain.

@HappySonHappyMumShe should have talked to the pool organizer. The borough does need to know. Why would she be black listed? Does she think the Borough is not complying with recruitment legislation too? Does the Borough not give info to applicants about the selection processes? Personally I think some schools try and get away with poor practice and this should be queried. However as the schools are probably academies, the LA has no power over them. Other than to say the schools won’t get sent young grads via their scheme.

With the new academic year I hope all the new/recent students are doing ok. It is tough out there but jobs do exist so hopefully everyone finds the right path.

Where I work there are a few students either placement or graduates and I think they add to the dynamic and culture of a company.

However I appreciate that they must think I'm ancient as that's what I thought of anyone over 40 when I started work 😀

Just to say that just before graduating my child cold called the companies they had done brief work experience for in the last couple of years and one of them gave her a job. They wernt advertising any “grad jobs”. This was following a Real Estate RICS accredited degree. So encourage any work
experience opportunities you can find. Good luck all.

Delighted to say ds2 now has a job offer. Like above poster from reaching out to a company he had done an internship rather than a job advert. Actually another 3 of his friendship group have received job offers as a result of internships or placement years which definitely shows the worth of getting your second year students to get their cv's polished and to start applying for these.

Yes my two have jobs

@Karma2023 The Voice of reality says there aren’t enough jobs for all grads in terms of grad level jobs. Grads will be taking jobs that should be done by school and FE leavers so they push the jobless down the ladder to an extent. It’s inevitable many grads will be disappointed but not MN grads I suspect.

One got a job through their internship another through multiple applications after graduation. Most important factor for both was experience and resilience.