Until 2008, about 80 percent of graduates started in a job straightaway (the green line on the graph). Two years later, this proportion had dropped to 60 percent. And of the group that did not find a job immediately (yellow), about half (red) were unemployed for more than four months. The same development can be seen among PhD graduates, although here it started a year later (2009) and their chances of finding a job were higher: 75 percent found a job in the year in which they graduated. Salary-wise, little has changed since 2006. The average Wageningen graduate starts on a modest 2100 euros per month (gross, fulltime) but this goes up fairly rapidly, reaching around 6000 euros when they have 30 years’ experience.
Jobless for longer
It is not yet alarming, but the trend is clear: Wageningen graduates are taking longer to find a job, career survey de Loopbaanmonitor 2011 tells us.