A Lack of Employment Opportunities

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A Lack of Employment Opportunities
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• Industry forecasts are showing a lack of
  employment opportunities for the alumni of 2008
  and beyond.

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• Almost half of all large sized firms will not
  have the sufficient resources to provide graduate
  schemes or apprenticeships for the coming months,
  a study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel
  Development finds.

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• The government is even encouraging graduates to
  pursue working abroad to avoid the worst of the
  economic crisis. This advice was, surprisingly,
  agreed by the National Union of Students and
  handed out recently on flyers at universities all
  across the UK.

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• Chris Harman, operations director at
  Resourcing-Plus.co.uk, said a lack of funding
  from the government for vocational schemes such
  as internships meant that college leavers were
  bearing the brunt of this recession almost
  immediately.

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• So who exactly would want to be graduating in the
  year of 2008?

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• Well a group of young professionals have already
  been experiencing these career struggles for the
  past 12 months.
• They graduated in 2008 and entered the jobs
  market at the beginning of the economic slowdown.
  

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