By Tonya Evara, marketing student at Griffith Business School
So, you’ve graduated. Congratulations! You’ve just returned from your solo Contiki trip around Europe and you’re wondering: now what? Perhaps the hangover has worn off and you’ve been scouring Seek for months, living off Mi Goreng noodles? Or maybe you’re in the final few semesters of university and praying for the light at the end of the tunnel?
Well, I’ve got both good and bad news for you. The good news is: Generation Y is the most educated generation in Australian history. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), in 1976 only 5% of young adults had a bachelor degree or higher qualification compared to more than a quarter (26%) in 2011.
The bad news: all of these gradates means you’ll be graduating into a highly competitive job market. A report from Graduate Careers Australia in 2015 shows that 68.8% of recent grads were able to secure a full-time job within four
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