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Time to look at Plan B for careers

Undergraduates are being forced to abandon their preferred career choices as the recession hits job prospects and graduate recruitment programmes are scaled back, say the heads of university careers services.

Undergraduates are being forced to abandon their preferred career choices as the recession hits job prospects and graduate recruitment programmes are scaled back, say the heads of university careers services.

Their comments come in the wake of this spring's annual Graduate Careers Survey of students in which 84 per cent of respondents said competition was much tougher this year than last. Just 5 per cent in the survey, carried out for 30 universities by High Fliers Research, thought "there are plenty of jobs for finalists leaving university this summer".

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