Don't expect a guaranteed job, business students warned

Business and management students are not guaranteed to walk straight into a job when they leave university, one expert has remarked.

Despite the belief that business and management disciplines are a 'passport' to a good job, Margaret Dane, the Chief Executive of Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services, stated that this is not the case.

'A well-motivated history graduate with some good work experience may be preferable to mediocre business graduates who think their degree is enough,' she said.

Furthermore, students who study an arts and humanities subject have traditionally been thought of as the least 'employable,' Ms Dane noted.

She stated that English students have the 'broad education, thinking and communication skills that employers are seeking,' and 'are often more adaptable and flexible' than other students.

Only 27% of arts and humanities students believed they would find employment after university, the 2007 UK Graduate Careers Survey revealed.

This was compared to 62% of those studying IT, 58% of engineering students and 57% of business or finance undergraduates.