According to the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), numbers of vacancies will rise 10.2% in 2014.
The rise reflects growing business confidence and economic growth, the association says.
Big growth sectors include IT and telecommunications, energy and banking, but a rise in public sector recruitment is also predicted. Stephen Isherwood, the AGR’s chief executive, said the results were “welcome news”.
The National Union of Students (NUS) welcomed the figures, but the union’s president, Toni Pearce, said the improvement in job prospects for graduates did little to address the “endemic problem of youth unemployment”.
“The lack of graduate jobs is in fact one issue under the more catastrophic umbrella of youth unemployment,” she said.
“Graduates will always survive better than non-graduates, who are in fact twice as likely to be unemployed, according to NUS research,” she added.
“A rise in graduate jobs does not mean that the wider and more pressing issue of youth unemployment will just disappear.” Read more
