It’s unsurprising that international students might want to know their chances of working in the UK, or what sort of organisations will sponsor.
Anyone who’s worked in a university careers service will have plenty of anecdotal information, and information from destinations surveys with modest response rates, but hard facts on this topic are not always easy to find.
If you were asked who you thought the top 20 sponsors by number were, you might well guess KPMG or Deloitte, but would you have included universities as almost half of that list?
As the relatively new Graduate Route post-study work visa beds in (which doesn’t require any employer sponsorship or minimum salary or skill level), perhaps now is a good time to reflect on what happened under the previous sponsored work visa route.
