Those leaving university this summer are heading into the worst jobs market for seven years, with the number of graduate-level roles advertised on Adzuna, the jobs search engine, down by a fifth in the past five months.
There are just shy of 13,000 entry-level jobs for university leavers on the site, almost 12 per cent fewer than at this point last year, when closer to 15,000 graduate roles were posted.
Competition for roles that are still available will be “particularly tight” this year. About 570,000 students in the UK are set to graduate in the next few months, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
