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Looking for a job after university? First, get off the sofa More than 650,000 students left university this summer and many have no idea about the way to get a job. How tough should a parent be to galvanize通电，刺激 them in these financially fraught担心的，忧虑的 times? 1 In July, you looked on as your handsome 21-year-old son, dressed in gown and mortarboard, proudly clutched his honors degree for his graduation photo. Those memories of forking out不情愿掏出 thousands of pounds a year so that he could eat well and go to the odd party began to fade. Until now. 2 As the summer break comes to a close and students across the country prepare for the start of a new term, you find that your graduate son is still spending his days slumped 掉落in front of the television, broken only by texting, Facebook and visits to the pub. This former scion幼芽 of Generation Y has morphed改变 overnight into a member of Generating Grunt. Will he ever get a job? 3. This is the scenario情节 facing thousands of families. More than 650,000 students left university this summer and most in these financially testing times have no idea what to do next. Parents revert to回复 nagging; Sons and daughters become rebels without a cause, aware that they need to get a job, but not sure how. 4. Jack Goodwin, from Middlesex, graduated with a 2:1 in politics from Nottingham this summer. He walked into the university careers service and straight back out again; there was a big queue. He lived with five other boys all of whom did the same. There was no pressure to find a job, even though most of the girls he knew had a clearer plan. 5. “I applied for a job as a political researcher, but got turned down,” he says. “they were paying ￡18,000, doesn?t buy you much more than a tin of beans after rent, but they wanted people with experience or master?s degrees. Then I applied for the Civil Service fast stream. I passed the exam, but at the interviews they accused me of being ?too detached” and talking in language that was ?too tec