Who is nervous now
January 21, 2009 by admin
Filed under Recruitment News
Well i see the fresh graduates have now turned their sights on accountancy as a safe job, the next thing we will see is graduates entering the Civil Service again.
This was prompted by a post from the Birmingham post.
Accountancy remains an attractive career choice for new graduates despite job losses in the financial sector.
One of the country’s leading professional services firms Deloitte announced that more students are chosing to apply to the field.
Darren Page, graduate recruitment manager at Deloitte in Birmingham, said that the firm had recently seen an increase in the number of graduates applying for jobs. “Many students perceive a high level of job security in the accountancy industry and indeed, firms like Deloitte have seen increasing demand for advice from businesses struggling to cope with the economic environment.” Mr Page said students were seeking secure employment in sectors that are well placed to weather the economic storm. He said: “At the moment we are experiencing strong growth in our Reorganisation Services practice which looks after company receiverships.
The value attributed to job security by students is higher than I have seen before.”
However, according to recent reports from Highfliers Research, in 2009 there will be fewer job opportunities for graduates in the accountancy sector.
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Diana on Thu, 12th Feb 2009 3:54 pm
Hi,
I agree that lots of graduates these days opt accountancy as their career as it is considered one of the safe and recession proof job. Accountancy is one of the popular careers amongst the oxbridge students as per the stats revealed by a recent survey report http://www.topemployers.co.uk/oxbridge-students-graduate-jobs-survey-08-page4.html
Nick Cooper on Wed, 21st Oct 2009 8:58 am
As a specailist finance & accountancy recruitment consultancy we have noticed over the course of 2009 that within practice competition for places has never been so high. Whilst certain divisions such as insolvency has seen an increase in oppotunities due to the economic climate, other more traditional graduate paths such as business services has seen an increase in applications which has lead to fierce selection processes.