{"id":34325,"date":"2014-07-11T09:16:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T09:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T09:16:51","slug":"number-of-graduate-and-trainee-roles-leaps-by-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/number-of-graduate-and-trainee-roles-leaps-by-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of graduate and trainee roles leaps by 13%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/new-job.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-884\" alt=\"new-job\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/new-job.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGraduates across the UK can look forward to being greeted with a buoyant jobs market the moment they complete their degrees, according to the latest figures.<br \/>\nThe totaljobs.com barometer revealed a 13% leap in the number of graduate and trainee roles between Q2 2013 and Q2 2014 &#8211; indicating that employers are keener than ever to hire skilled candidates from the graduate talent pool.<br \/>\nThese findings come in the wake of the High Fliers report, which showed a 12% increase in the number of jobs for degree holders \u2013thus returning the graduate jobs market to its pre-recession peak.<br \/>\nThe research from totaljobs.com also went on to reveal the sectors that have seen the strongest growth in vacancies over the same period. Graduate and trainee roles placed fifth in this ranking while the top four was as follows:<br \/>\n\u2022 Construction &#8211; +43%<br \/>\n\u2022 Transport and logistics &#8211; +27%<br \/>\n\u2022 Customer service &#8211; +19%<br \/>\n\u2022 Secretarial, PA and administration &#8211; +18%<br \/>\n<strong>Some regions out performing others<\/strong><br \/>\nOn a regional basis the East Midlands saw the biggest increase in job postings, with this figure climbing by 17%. This was closely followed by Yorkshire at +16%. Graduates entering the employment market may also want to hunt for roles in Wales, the North West, the North East, and East Anglia \u2013 with job openings in these regions jumping by 12% across the year.<br \/>\nCommenting on the survey findings, John Salt, Director at totaljobs.com said: \u201cAlthough not all sectors have enjoyed a rise in jobs, today\u2019s figures show that the overall national labor market is very positive.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cEncouragingly, given the higher level of youth unemployment, the number of graduate and trainee jobs has increased by 13% year on year, and 6% since the last quarter. This will be a relief for many young people who are still struggling to find work and follows last week\u2019s announcement of the EU Youth Guarantee to secure under 25s a job offer within four months.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates across the UK can look forward to being greeted with a buoyant jobs market the moment they complete their degrees, according to the latest figures. The totaljobs.com barometer revealed a 13% leap in the number of graduate and trainee roles between Q2 2013 and Q2 2014 &#8211; indicating that employers are keener than ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}