Working while attending university, even on a part-time basis, improves your job prospects after graduation. Student-workers, or those who combine job and academic experience but emphasize the latter, are 32.9% more likely to be employed than those who have never picked up a pen from their books. Even better are those who invert the balance of power, i.e. those who prioritize "making money": here, the chances of being employed twelve months after graduation are 35.1% greater than those of the other grads. This is shown in the most recent AlmaLaurea report, which looks into how much students who graduated in 2022 have earned in terms of job placement one year after graduation. It also indicates a growing occurrence of double commitment. An analysis conducted by the Skuola.net portal focused on graduates of second-level courses only (two-year and single-cycle), i.e. those most likely to enter the workforce, and found that up to 64% of the total - roughly two out of every three - had engaged in some form of paid activity during their university years. Almost all of them (49.8% of the majority of graduates), as expected, work irregularly or part-time: 30.3% undertake occasional or seasonal job, 19.5% part-time. However, there is a significant number (14.3%) of full-time workers.
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