Study to work: 2.6 years to get job after uni

Study hard, go to uni, start an interesting, well-paid career. It used to be simple but these days, unless you’ve done a vocational degree, like medicine or teaching, it’s a long and winding road.  It takes a graduate an average 2.6 years to find a full-time job in the area that they’ve studied. So what’s that costing us and how can we do better?