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Published: 28 March 2008

Employment of recent graduates continued to increase

Employment of recent graduates continued to increase. Transition to working life was smoothest for those with tertiary degrees. Just short of 90 per cent of them were employed at the end of 2006. Of the graduates with an upper secondary vocational qualification 71 per cent were employed. Employment increased by roughly one percentage point in all levels of education.

Graduates with upper secondary vocational qualifications had the highest proportion of unemployment, i.e. 11 per cent, one year after graduation. Five per cent of the graduates from polytechnics and 4 per cent of the graduates with higher university degrees were unemployed. The proportion of the unemployed was smaller than in the past few years.

Transition to working life differed according to field and level of education as well as area. In all fields of education and in the whole country, the transition to working life was smoother for graduates with tertiary degrees than for graduates with upper secondary vocational qualifications. Of all fields of education, the transition to working life was the smoothest for completers of a qualification in the field of safety and security, nearly all of whom were employed. Well over 80 per cent of graduates from the fields of the humanities and education, welfare, health and sport as well as social sciences were also employed.

Employment of graduates one year after graduation by level of education 2005 and 2006, %

Source: Education Statistics. Statistics Finland

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Director in charge: Mr Jari Tarkoma

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Last updated 28.3.2008