A generation ago, a university degree was a ticket to the upper middle class
and secured the holder a better job.
Today, a diploma doesn’t guarantee
quality of employment—the main reason degrees are supposed to be valuable.
In a land where everyone is encouraged to get a sheepskin, it doesn’t
brand its owner as highly employable the way it used to.
The growth of skilled jobs has lagged behind the rapid increase of graduates in the US, UK, and many other parts of the world. That’s why so many new graduates
are working in jobs that don’t even require a college degree.
There’s an expression for new grads who have a job
that doesn’t require a college degree—underemployed.
In recent years, over 40 percent of new grads in the US
and over 58 percent in the UK were underemployed.
How to avoid underemployment is the key reason I wrote my new book, , “Graduate to a Great Career.” (graduatetoagreatcareer.com)