Ami Ophelia-Brown submitted over 300 job applications during her final year at the University of Northampton, from where she graduated this summer.

“I had been getting no luck,” said 21-year-old Ophelia-Brown, who graduated with a first-class degree in economics in 2021. “I had been applying for internships and graduate schemes directly from company websites and I would get past the psychometric tests and then I wouldn’t hear anything back.”