Despite these sectors taking a knock due to the recent downside in global markets, there’s still major scope here for career success These two industries were among those hardest hit during the global credit crunch. However, recovery, although slow, is being felt and both still offer opportunities for focused and financially-savvy graduates.

Actuaries are in high demand following the global financial crisis, the Actuarial Society of SA says.   "The global credit crisis has resulted in high demand for professionals qualified in risk assessment and management. "Increasingly actuaries are required to lead the risk strategies of organisations instead of restricting themselves to the traditional field of product design," the society's president Peter Doyle said.

While graduate recruitment has slowed down here, employers are still in the market for scare skills   When you ask most five-year-olds what they want to do when they grow up, unsurprisingly most of them don’t say they want to work in insurance.