73 graduates chase each job

Leading companies are being flooded by 73 applications for each graduate vacancy, a major report reveals today.

That figure is an average and the number is even higher in some sectors, with 154 chasing each post in retail and 142 vying for a single job in investment banking.

The report says that it is even harder to find work this year as openings are down on 2011 amid the economic uncertainty worsened by the eurozone crisis....Daily Mail