Graduate Employment Links to Sandwich Year Work Placements

Graduate Employment Links to Sandwich Year

Work PlacementsLisa WardTQEF Project Manager8th February, 2006

Graduate EmploymentHuddersfield 2003/04 Graduates in Full-time Employment by

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Source: Careers Service DLHE Survey

Average Salaries of Huddersfield Graduates 2003/04

Average Salary of Huddersfield Graduates 2003/04

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Unemployment Amongst Huddersfield Graduates 2003/04

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The Effect of Placements on Graduate Employment

Data from DLHE (Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education) in 2003/04 from University of Huddersfield across four main Schools involved in Sandwich Placements.

First degree graduates only – excludes Postgraduates and HNDs.

For full-time students only. Data is by School. All data is linked back to whether each student did a

placement year on their course – regardless of whether degree was sandwich or full-time.

Comparison of Employment Across Schools Offering Sandwich Degrees

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Placement Taken?

In Work Doing Something Else Actively Looking for Work

What is agraduate job?

HESA ClassificationsHigher Education Statistics Agency Classifications:

1. Managers and Senior Officials2. Professional Occupations3. Associate Professional and Technical Occupations4. Administrative and Secretarial Occupations5. Skilled Trades Occupations6. Personal Services Occupations7. Sales and Customer Service Occupations8. Process, Plant and Machine Operatives9. Elementary Occupations

Note: Colours are used for coding graphs on next pages

Across Four University Schools

Managers, Senior Officialsand Professionals

Associate Professional andTechnical Occupations

Administrative and SecretarialOccupations

Other Jobs

Doing Something Else

Actively Looking for Work

Placements - NoPlacements - Yes

Students who do a placement are more likely to:•Gain a Managerial, Professional or Senior Official post•Gain an Associate Professional or Technical Post•Get any job

Seven Years OnAll Graduates

Managers and Senior Officials

Professional Occupations



Other Jobs

Source: Warwick University Seven Years on: Survey of the Career Path of 1995 Graduates (Nationwide)

•Six months is not a long period to establish a career.•Seven years on most graduates are established in their career.•Management and professional occupations are well represented.•Research team reclassified graduate jobs.

Graduate SalariesGraduates Salaries by Occupation Grouping and Placements Taken

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TechnicalOccupations

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•Graduate Salaries are generally higher for students who take a placement year.

•The biggest difference in salaries occurs for Associate Professional and Other Jobs.

•Potentially some graduate recruiters will pay a ‘graduate’ salary,regardless of placement.

Graduate Jobs

Students who do a Placement stand a better chance in the job market

Students Employed by Job Classification and Placement Year (Yes/No)

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Professional andTechnical

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Any Job

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Computing and Engineering

Managers, Senior Officialsand Professionals



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Placement - Yes Placement - No

•Students who do a placement are more likely to get a managerial/professional job.•Overall employment goes up significantly for placement students.

School of Applied Science

Managers, SeniorOfficials andProfessionalsAssociate Professionaland TechnicalOccupationsAdministrative andSecretarial Occupations

Other Jobs




•Placement Students are twice as likely to get a least an Associate Professional Job.•Only a quarter of students who don’t take a placement get at least an

Associate Professional job.•Students without placement experience are more likely to get ‘other jobs’

and more likely to be doing ‘something else’.

£4,367

Salaries for School of Applied Science

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•The School of Applied Science shows the greatest difference in graduate salariesbetween those who take placements and those who don’t.

•There are better salaries for placement students across all four categories.•Average salaries increase from £12.6K for students without placement experience

to £17K for students with placement experience.

School of Art and DesignManagers, Senior Officialsand Professionals


Administrative andSecretarial Occupations

Customer ServiceOccupations

Other Jobs


Actively Looking for W ork


• Students who do placements are more likely to get an Associate Professionalor Technical Occupation.

• Many of the jobs in this category could be typical ‘graduate’ jobs for Arts and Design.• Customer Service Occupations are much more common in the

School of Art and Design than other Schools who offer student placements.• Art and Design students are less likely than students from other schools to do

administration and secretarial occupations.

HUBSManagers, Professionalsand Senior Officials

Associate Professionaland TechnicalOccupationsAdministrative andSecretarial Occupations

Other Jobs


Actively Looking fotWork

Placements - Yes Placements – No

•Graduates who did a placement are more likely to get managerial roleand Associate Professional role.

•Overall employment is higher for graduates who did placements.•Graduates who don’t do placements are much more likely to be

doing ‘something else’.

Seven Years OnBusiness Graduates

Managers and Senior Officials

Professional Occupations



Other Jobs

As might be expected there are high numbers of business graduates inManagement positions.

Source: seven years on

Degree Classifications

Using 2003/04 ASIS Data

Across School Comparison of Degree Classifications for 2003/04 Graduates

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Degree Classification Across Four Schools with Sandwich Degrees by Placement

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First Class Upper Second Lower Second Third Class Ordinary Degree

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‘A placement is a partnership between a university, a student and a firm. The

university gets rid of the student for a bit. The student gets away from the university for a bit, and spreads dissent across the workforce by telling everyone how much

better life is in the other firm the student was in last year.’

Disillusioned and cynical employer.

Source: Working and Learning Together… How to get the most out of work based learning. DfEE 1997

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