Is a degree worthless in belfast?

Question

I have just completed my degree in Business studies and hope to get a 2.1 yet there is nothing out there and I have been trying, I registered with all recrutiment agencys, applied for countless jobs but due to lack of experiance have had no luck.

How do you get experiance, then when my c.v does get recognised they send you shl solutions exams, I pass the verbal, then fail the math, what has the population of ethipoa got to do with a job. I got 75% in my accounts exam I know my numbers and surely that is more relevant.

I am starting to believe education was a waste of time because there is no reward out there for it, well here in belfast there is not, a degree is just a bit of paper. My girlfriend has not got a qualifiaction to her name yet earns £15,500 a yr in a call centre, nothings done to support graduates.

Answer 1

May be u are not facing to interviews well,

Answer 2

The "opportunity cost" of doing 3 or 4 years of studying in Belfast, or anywhere, is that you could have been earning 3 or 4 years' wages, and receiving on the job training and so forth. So having a degree only becomes worth it, usually, a few years after you graduate.



A degree + no experience isn't much use. So, you need some voluntary experience, or you need to enrol on a postgraduate or training course that definitely has more employability surrounding it!