Bangkok Post – Graduates struggling to find work

The National Statistical Office (NSO) expressed concern on Wednesday over the high rate of unemployment among new graduates — now representing the biggest portion of the nation’s jobless, according to a survey conducted in October.

Suwannee Wangkarn, deputy director of the NSO, said the agency regularly does a monthly employment survey among Thais, and the latest in October showed that about 150,000 new graduates were out of work.

She said the group represented the biggest portion of the unemployed — which stood at 341,000 in the October survey, or 0.8%.

Additionally, the number of unemployed who had no work experience stood at 212,000.

Overall, the survey showed there were 40.37 million Thais who…