I'm currently on placement at a oil refinery (studying Chem Eng) and the graduates here start on £30k + sign on bonuses.
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I'm currently on placement at a oil refinery (studying Chem Eng) and the graduates here start on £30k + sign on bonuses.
Oh i know, i'm just saying.
You read so many threads saying get or 1st or your doomed, and frankly thats a load of tosh.
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As a guide, For a software engineer in London the general rate for a grad is between 24-28k
Was your degree mechanical or civil based? I'm doing civil but obviously I can specialise later and structural engineering sounds tempting...
Meh I got a 2:2 all those years ago and never did me any harm. Doubt I'd be earning any more if I'd have had a higher grade due to the area I wanted to live in, all the jobs (all 2 of them lol) I've wanted down here I've got with the most recent being a bit more experience based.
Grades will help if you're after grad schemes, although even then it's a third that causes problems as quite a few grad schemes will take on with a 2:2.
Liverpool. To be fair though, they are paying for my rent for 1 year of the first two (3 months of training, twice a year for two years).
Completely agree, no harm in aiming for a first but naysaying any other result is ridiculous. You've got to base it on the competence of the person too, some people are academic but struggle in the real world...
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Ah man, all this talk of being a) employable with a degree and b) not poor either is making me sad, nearly finished my degree in Games Computing at Lincoln with either a First or high 2:1 and I'd be happy with minimum wage prospects 
After graduation, they get 21,862 gross, which goes up to 27,116 the next year. From then on, it is about 1k/year increase. This is for 40h/week. Dont forget they also need to pay all sorts of "fees", for exams, registration with the deanery etc etc, which can come to thousands.
To be fair, the 21,862 did include a free room (which is pretty grotty) previously, so that was worth about 5-6k/year so thier "true" starting salary would have been around the 25-26k.year mark. They have recently revoked that privileged nationally, with no compensatory rise in pay. So they now effectively start at the 21k/year.
20ish? I'm willing to bet it entirely depends on the company.
Guys you are right about competence etc. Not wanting to blow my own trumpet but I got a 2:2, a few of my friends have firsts in maths etc, they dont even get a look in for auditor at the big 4. This is from Warwick aswell.
Ah man, all this talk of being a) employable with a degree and b) not poor either is making me sad, nearly finished my degree in Games Computing at Lincoln with either a First or high 2:1 and I'd be happy with minimum wage prospects
lol dont look at it that way mate. I never looked at the money, I just got a job with the company i wanted to work for since I was young (albeit in a different field).
Money comes with skill competency and good work. It will come sooner or later if you go for what you love.
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True, like I said id be happy to work in a relevant field of 3d art for peanuts since I love it. No luck on graduate positions as yet, guess i'll lower my expectations and apply for any and all IT related positions.
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i'd say that a year or 2 of relevant experience and a degree is enough to get better than a graduate job anyway
A prerequisite to a job that gives you relevant experience is... a job with relevant experience.
aah dont worry about that, if you're willing to take anything, take it, it will be worth it in the future.
not going to say the name but it's stock market related software
Know one other person on the forum works there too...