Major corporations are shying away from candidates with prestigious degrees,opting instead for skills-based hiring.
Wil Anderson,Matt Agnew,Flex Mami,Jane Lu and Clare Wheeler took different paths after school – but that didn’t stop them achieving their dreams.
All those lasagnes,lectures,wet Sunday dawns at junior footy,splashy beer vomits from top bunks and that one mad dash to hospital with bones sticking out of an arm snapped like a pencil will be worth it.
Graduates engineer a wig out.
Graduate pay rises over the first three years can vary by up to $30,000 depending on the choice of career,leading to warnings for high school-leavers to be realistic about being able to afford to live in a major capital city.
Their final years of school may have been marred by a once-in-a-century pandemic,but it hasn’t deterred the state’s brightest students from the medical profession.
Graduate hiring is slowly bouncing back after declining over the last two years.
Close to 40 per cent of recent university graduates say they are not making full use of their qualifications,but those who attend institutions with business partnerships are getting an edge when it comes to finding jobs.
While American university students proudly wear'first in family'badges,those in Australia suffer higher drop-out rates,lower attendance and worse marks than their peers.