Fewer Jobs For Engineering Students

An increasing number of engineering graduates experience to unemployed after they have finished their studies.

While engineering students have experienced getting up several job offers before they are finished with the program , and in addition had an average starting salary of around half a million, it is going now towards tougher times for this group of students.

Now reports the industry that the need for fresh engineers is less, and the past year, unemployment for graduates engineers doubled.

While 93 per cent of engineering graduates were in work six months after studies in 2013, the figure dropped to 87 percent last year. During the past year, unemployment has increased from five to ten percent. It emerges from Tekna labor market survey, carried out among students who finished their studies in the spring of 2014.

Tekna president Lise Lyngsnes Randaberg, however encourage young people to choose engineering.

If the trend continues, it is not luck, but it will still be very smart to choose such education. Advanced technological expertise needed ahead and says Randeberg to DN.no. 

Among other things, the decline in oil prices has led to troubled economy and a decline in employment in this sector. According Tekna examination answer 56 percent of the members that they are in a study relevant position. The figure has not been so low in 10 years.

Both State oil and engineering company Reinertsen has reduced employment in 2015. Reinertsen employees 26 fresh engineers last year, but has not posted any vacancies this year.

- There is a surplus of engineers, says director of business Geir Suul to DN.no.