{"id":3590,"date":"2022-06-29T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/?page_id=3590"},"modified":"2022-09-07T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:02:40","slug":"where-do-economics-graduates-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/school-of-economics\/where-do-economics-graduates-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do economics graduates work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3602\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/files\/2022\/06\/city-of-london-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3930\" height=\"2185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Economics degrees are popular with a wide range of employers and economics graduates go on to work in both the public and private sectors. The largest employer of economists is the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/employers\/civil-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Service<\/a> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/2017-government-economic-fast-stream-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Government Economic Service (GES)<\/a>, which recruits over 100 new graduates into assistant economist posts each year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bank of England<\/a> also has an economist stream within its graduate development programme. Many other economists are employed in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/employers\/banking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banking and finance<\/a> (retail and investment banks; insurance firms; brokerage firms; accountancy, asset management and hedge funds), management consultancies and professional services, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/employers\/campaigning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charitable and not-for profit organisations<\/a>, research institutes and think tanks.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/school-of-economics\/where-do-economics-graduates-work\/&amp;t=Where do economics graduates work?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Where do economics graduates work?%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/school-of-economics\/where-do-economics-graduates-work\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/school-of-economics\/where-do-economics-graduates-work\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/school-of-economics\/where-do-economics-graduates-work\/&amp;title=Where do economics graduates work?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/school-of-economics\/where-do-economics-graduates-work\/&amp;title=Where do economics graduates work?' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economics degrees are popular with a wide range of employers and economics graduates go on to work in both the public and private sectors. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/school-of-economics\/where-do-economics-graduates-work\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75552,"featured_media":0,"parent":3584,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3590\/revisions\/3959"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}