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British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-work-for-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "British CS majors do badly in the job market — with, four years after graduation, a higher than average (for college graduates) unemployment rate and fewer returning to higher education. Brit CS majors also do badly immediately after graduation. No similar U.S. figures exist reports the Computing Education Blog."

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  1. Re:Definitely not the case in the US by lucm · · Score: 5, Informative

    > I get job offers weekly that offer to pay me ~$60/hr throughout the U.S

    No you don't. What you get is calls from headhunters, like everybody in IT. These are not "job offers" but merely opportunities for you to submit your resume. And the 60$/hr is the going rate for those opportunities, not what you personnally are being offered.

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    lucm, indeed.
  2. Wait a minute by Sits · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article says that CS unemployment is (5.1% unemployed) is worse than unemployment for all courses (3.8%) for grads from 06/07 four years later. However a larger precentage of the CS cohort (81.5%) were in full time employment compared to all grads (73.2%).

    So things are tough for all grads and many are not going into full time employment in any subject...