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刚刚在UQ Career Hub上看到的，地址 https://www.careerhub.uq.edu.au/ViewNews.chpx?id=86493

Graduates' career choices cut by half

UNIVERSITY graduates with degrees infinance, law or accountancy face fierce competition securing a job thisyear as redundancies increase and employment opportunities dry up.

While they should be celebrating their transition from student toprofessional, they are facing less than half the usual number ofadvertised positions in their chosen field.

The Olivier Job Index reveals job advertisements for universitygraduates in the banking and financial services sector have dropped astaggering 73 per cent in the past year.

For accounting graduates, the job pool has shrunk by 64 per cent, whilethe number of advertised legal jobs is down 53 per cent.

Simone Mears, a director with the Profusion Group, which specialises infinancial services recruitment, said redundancies and cost pressuresremained rife and graduate recruitment would be flat. "There's not alot of new recruitment going on purely in response to the economicclimate," she said.

"Most groups are looking at their business models and trying tominimise the redundancies." In recent years, large employers havelocked in the best students prior to graduation with offers ofemployment.

There are now reports some companies have delayed the starting dates,while others are reassessing the number of positions they offer in2009-10.

A spokesperson for Macquarie Group said that there had not been areduction in the number of graduates in this year's program, but "theremay be some changes to start dates in a few isolated incidences".

In the banking sector, Westpac, National Australia Bank, ANZ andCommonwealth Bank are all honouring the offers they made last year, butthis only represents a pool of about 650 graduates.

National Australia Bank alone received 10,000 applications for this year's program.

Those people outside of a graduate program will be more affected"simply because at a time when we're seeing redundancies across manyfinancial services companies they are less likely to hire the numbersthey have hired in previous years in order to keep costs low", Ms Mearssaid.

Commonwealth Bank talent and development executive general manager SamSheppard said graduates in this position should see it as anopportunity to extend their skills set.

"Organisationally, we value very strong experiences -- be it in thevoluntary sector or demonstrating leadership capabilities -- in manyother means than in a professional role," she said.

Meanwhile business leaders have warned companies that to scale back rawtalent recruitment may be setting themselves up for a fall when theeconomy eventually recovered.

HLB Mann Judd Sydney human resources partner Matthew Gardiner wasconcerned there would be a "gap" if a certain number of accountinggraduates were not employed by the firm each year. "Some of ourcompetitors have cut their programs or delayed the starts of theirgraduates and cadets," he said. "We actually have a recruitment hold inother levels, so we aren't recruiting senior accountants, but we'reprogressing with our graduate and cadet programs because we see thattraining them will be important for us in the next two to three years."

He suggested the economic downturn may work in the firm's favour when it comes to retaining quality accounting graduates.

"Over the past couple of years we have increased our graduate programsbecause we noticed that our graduates were getting some qualificationswith us and then would be tempted to travel overseas to work inBritain, or they would be tempted to go into the investment bankingsector.

"We will be monitoring over the next year or two whether there has been a change to that pattern," he said.

"The investment banking industry is probably going to be lessattractive for accountants than it was now that people have seen whatcan happen in that sector."

Two of Australia's best-known law firms, Allens Arthur Robinson andBlake Dawson, were also taking the long-term view that they could illafford to cut graduate recruitment.

The legal sector turned away young talent during the Keating-eraslowdown of the early 1990s, according to Blakes deputy managingpartner Helen McKenzie.

"It takes you four to five years to recover from that," she said.

At Allens, resourcing head Kathryn Whyte-Southcombe said: "We'relooking to develop our legal talent and have a pipeline for thefuture."

In 2009, Allens would take on some 90 graduate employees, representingabout 10 per cent of its total number of lawyers, a proportion that hadremained steady over the past few years, she said. "We look to ourgraduates for our foundation," Ms Whyte-Southcombe said.

Blakes had no plans to reduce the number of summer clerkships (33 in Sydney this summer) or graduate employees.

Most clerks, in their penultimate year as law students, are offeredpositions as graduate employees, which they must take up within 12-18months of graduation. Ms McKenzie said Blakes was considering whetherto narrow that window of opportunity to help manage recruitment at atime of economic uncertainty.
Article sourced from the Australian, Jan 10 2009. Written by Sara Rich, Bernard Lane.

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