OUR ADVICES – Nearly one out of five Bac+5 students has still not found a job one year after graduating. However, youth represents an advantage in many respects, it is still necessary to succeed in highlighting it.
Agathe does the accounts, calmly. Two months of job search, five offers corresponding to his profile, three or four interviews, as many refusals. “I am always blamed for my lack of experience“, regrets the one who obtained her master’s degree in communication in September. “ The last time I applied, the company finally recruited someone who had ten years in the business. “Not enough to discourage the young woman:” I have friends who got hired in my field after eight months of searching, so I’m hanging on.»
Agathe is not an isolated case. One year after leaving the student world, 18% of those who hold at least a Bac+5 still do not have a job, according to the 2022 barometer of the integration of young graduates carried out by the Association pour l’emploi executives (Apec). Even more worrying: among those hired, more than one in four believe that their current position does not correspond to their personal aspirations. For one in five, it is even a “ food job “.
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