‘Really stressful’: UK graduate who spent Rs 1 crore on degree fails to get job after 500 applications

A 21-year-old graduate who spent nearly £100,000 (around Rs 1 crore) on his UK education says the job market is “broken” after applying to 500 jobs without securing a single offer.Khaled Sharif, who graduated top of his class in digital media technology from Kingston University near London in 2025, has received fewer than 20 interview calls so far and remains unemployed despite his academic performance, the New York Post reported.“I got top of my class, but I can’t find anything,” Sharif said, describing the experience as “really stressful”.Sharif, who was born in Egypt and raised in Qatar before moving to the UK at 18, had hoped studying in Britain would open global career opportunities,Instead, he says he has been forced to expand his search beyond his field into sales and other roles he

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