Majority of graduates have non-graduate jobs, reports CIPD

Posted on 19 Aug 2015 by Jonny Williamson
The cyber security graduates are to join the Applied Intelligence business based at sites in London, Guildford and Leeds - image courtesy of BAE Systems.

More than half of UK university graduates are working in jobs that do not require a degree, reveals a new report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

According to the CIPD study, 58.8% of graduates are in jobs deemed to be non-graduate roles. The organisation said the number of graduates had now “significantly outstripped” the creation of high-skilled jobs and that the report’s findings should be a “a wake-up call”. Chief executive of the CIPD – the professional body for HR managers, Peter Cheese…

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