I'm a 2:2 graduate I can't even get minimum wage jobs

Even finding crappy part time jobs is hard nowadays. I tried to find one during previous summer holidays but had no luck. I've seen sales roles on Reed receive 50 applications on the same day it was posted. It's far too competitive for young people without much experience.

It's quite irritating how employers don't care about your university and just filter out below 2.1 by default. An AAA student could've worked twice as hard on their degree and walk out with a 2.2. Meanwhile, a BCC student can coast through their degree and not be filtered out. They don't care for the fact that a 2.2 graduate could still have a much better CV than many 2.1 applicants. Sorry to sound arrogant.

You can get perfectly good jobs with a 2:2...loads of graduate schemes.
Where have you been looking and what field?

I graduated last month with a 2:2 in Computer science and since then I have been applying for graduate jobs non-stop with a lot of rejections. I then had to sign on JSA, now the Job center are advising me to work for free for 2 weeks in a call center to get "experience" which I've refused because I dislike to be exploited by the company and work for free in a field that does not interest me.

I explained to the Job centers that I'm interested in IT jobs to which they replied that they would not be paying me benefits so that I could sit and wait for a very specific job. And after applying to loads of minimum wage jobs and getting loads of rejections they want me to work for free in some crappy job to get experience.

The other day they sent me to a compulsory course which explained about how to use the internet to apply for jobs I thought it was laughable they must be stuck in the 90's. They have no clue on how to deal with graduates

To be honest, I started applying a bit late. I'm a compsci grad and have been looking at various job websites and big companies for IT jobs. I know that there's a handful that accept 2.2 (Jaguar springs to mind), but most other big companies that have IT schemes filter it out.

People with 2.2's don't deserve jobs. Getting a 2.1 is not exactly difficult.

How could someone move out if they have never been able to get a job? Obviously living with parents is the only option. People who have been able to move out are very lucky. Lucky to get a job in the first place, even more lucky that they get one with enough hours to be even able to move out.

I was technically "employed" although on 5 hours a week, literally pocket money pay, how am I expected to move out on 5 hours per week!?




The **** is wrong with you!? I find YOU incredibly bizarre, that you seem to be entirely cut off from REALITY.

Are you familiar with this concept: Applying for a job and not getting so much as an interview, on the rare occasion that you do get an interview, you don't get selected. We can't all be highly successful "yes" men like you appear to be.

The above scenario can go on for years as it has in my case. I have been looking for work on and off since I was 17. Not my fault no one hired me. I got my first job when I was nearly 20.

Seven hours a week cleaning a library after hours. Before that I even tried Kleeneze which was torture and I lost money. So don't tell me I didn't try.

I don't know what made you think she might be foreign but let me tell you as an Englishman, I asked my mum about your story of working when you were 13 and she said it was illegal and that your "employer" should be prosecuted, unless you are old and grew up in the days when child labour was common.

I am more inclined to think your comments are those of a troll because getting a job at 18 is hard enough, let alone at 13. I tell you if you came up to me telling me I hadn't worked hard enough to get a job they would be your last words

It's quite irritating how employers don't care about your university and just filter out below 2.1 by default. An AAA student could've worked twice as hard on their degree and walk out with a 2.2. Meanwhile, a BCC student can coast through their degree and not be filtered out. They don't care for the fact that a 2.2 graduate could still have a much better CV than many 2.1 applicants. Sorry to sound arrogant.

Tbh the same way somebody may have performed bad at a level and then fixed up and got a 2:1 at degree level.

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or BCC student worked just as hard and got a better degree result that makes his A-levels irrelevant.

It's quite irritating how employers don't care about your university and just filter out below 2.1 by default. An AAA student could've worked twice as hard on their degree and walk out with a 2.2. Meanwhile, a BCC student can coast through their degree and not be filtered out. They don't care for the fact that a 2.2 graduate could still have a much better CV than many 2.1 applicants. Sorry to sound arrogant.

When I was 13 I was in school obviously, that is your default occupation at that age, at least since I have been born, I don't know what time period you are referring to when you talk about working at that age. There is no way I would have been allowed to work when I was 13, my mum wouldn't have allowed it as she would claim it was detracting from school work. She has always favoured being academic although I am not good at that kind of thing.

I actually agree with you about my temper, it can go from normal to livid in an instant, although only if specific circumstances are met, like this subject, which I feel strongly about partially due to jealousy at my lack of opportunities. But I do quite well to hide my temper when I go to interviews and I can guarantee it does not come through, so it won't be that scuppering my chances. Often I think I just come across as too ordinary without any stand out traits.

I was gonna volunteer actually but it fell through for some reason, that was back just after finishing uni. Also volunteering has travel expenses don't forget. It does make me feel jealous I must admit that you were able to work from such a young age. My mum wouldn't allow that because it would detract from school work, in her own words, even though I personally think it would have been quite character building to have some sort of independence.

It doesn't help that when I was about 16/17 we were in a rescission so getting minimum wage jobs was quite difficult as they then required someone with years of experience in shelve stacking and as a 16/17 year old I didn't have that.

I did volunteer at some places in the summers I have that in my CV and that didn't help me secure employment.
I've basically been lied to and been told that doing my degree will make it easier for me to get a job, which I believed when I was a naive 6th former

My point was that it takes more work to get that 2.1 as you go up uni league tables (getting 60 at a ex-poly is easier than a top 20), not the mention the fact that certain subjects are much easier than others. I knew loads of people that left their essays to the last minute and managed to attain 60. You can't do that with subjects like Computer Science. Many graduate schemes don't distinguish between subjects or universities, and it doesn't seem fair.

Yes and my mum used them to drag us around museums and force us (me and my brother) to do homework up on homework. She was very strict in enforcing the rules. I often hate her for what she did to us.

To be honest, I started applying a bit late. I'm a compsci grad and have been looking at various job websites and big companies for IT jobs. I know that there's a handful that accept 2.2 (Jaguar springs to mind), but most other big companies that have IT schemes filter it out.