College Grad in the UK Who Paid Six Figures for Degree Claims He Can’t Find a Job
“Since I posted on TikTok about it, I’ve had people [who hold] masters [degrees] saying they can’t get anything.”
Do they have trade schools in the UK? Perhaps he should have looked into that.
FOX News reports:
College graduate who paid 6-figure fortune for his degree can’t find a job
A 21-year-old who graduated at the top of his class after spending roughly $125,000, including expenses, on his college degree said “the system is broken” after he applied for 500 jobs and didn’t get one.
Khaled Sharif, 21, earned a degree in digital media tech from Kingston University just outside London, England. He began applying for relevant roles after he graduated in 2025, news agency SWNS reported.
But despite submitting 500 applications, he said he’s had less than 20 job interviews and is yet to land a job — despite expanding his search into sales and other sectors that he “didn’t want to work in.”
Sharif, who holds U.K. residency through his mother, moved to the United Kingdom from Qatar at age 18.
At the time, he said he was the envy of his peers, thanks to the U.K.’s reputation for offering some of the “best opportunities in the world.” But Sharif said he believes his degree is not the problem.
Instead, he said the job market is a “broken system” that is “flooded” with graduate applicants.
“It does make me really upset. It’s really stressful,” he told SWNS. “I got [a] top-of-my-class [designation], but I can’t find anything. Kingston’s not a top university, but I just can’t find anything — and I’ve applied for everything. If people got a lower grade, how hard would it be for them?”
He added, “Since I posted on TikTok about it, I’ve had people [who hold] masters [degrees] saying they can’t get anything.”
He went on, “I could easily get a part-time job in a Tesco [supermarket].”
But he wants “to use his degree,” he said.
He mentioned how much he spent to earn a college degree — and said, “I think the system is broken. More opportunities have to be made, but because of COVID and now AI, companies don’t want to hire. They’re looking to save money.”
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“Khaled Sharif, 21, earned a degree in digital media tech…”
Dude earned a degree in YouTube/TikTok and he’s upset that he can’t get a job where you puts together YouTube videos.
You’re late to the party, bucko. System’s been broken for at least 25 years.
Those types of degree programs (at least in the USA) come with internship opportunities that are gateways to full time employment once you graduate. I wonder if he missed out here.
He got preyed upon by a grifter school that took someone from Qatar that didn’t know any better. They dumped him off with a degree and zero connections.
It’s also a flowery name for something that can be learned in 6 months of studying on your own and learning by doing.
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he’ll be able to get a government job editing videos to the regimes liking and putting anglos in jail under their censorship laws
“said “the system is broken” after he applied for 500 jobs and didn’t get one.”
What did those 500 job applications have in common?
“The system”Khaled Sharif.Exactly! Blaming the degree isn’t the thing. And they didn’t really give much information about the kid, either. Is he one of those entitled brats who expected everything on a silver tray just because he showed up just like the other “participation trophy” generation? From his general tone, I would say YES.
Let’s examine this from a different perspective. NOBODY can apply to five hundred jobs without either submitting a boring generic resume to everybody or using Uncle Tom The AI.
I question the “500 jobs” part. There are not that many AI ATS out there, perhaps six or seven that are in use by most companies. One of the big ones is Workday. So if this dude had maybe 8% to 10% screened by that particular ATS, it would have rejected him automatically just because it would have targeted him as a “serial applicant”. So, Uncle AI would have got him, yes. However, if he had 20 interviews (which is a net yield of 4%, not bad for applicants these days, he still presented with an attitude or a personality that prevented him from going further in the process.