US jobs: What prospects for the class of 2011?

Investors around the world are worried that the latest US employment data, the non-farm payroll, will show companies there created far fewer jobs in May, compared with April's quarter of a million new hires.

It has been a bumpy road for job seekers, as America struggles to bring down high unemployment.

With hundreds of thousands of new graduates entering the labour force this summer, Caroline Hepker looks at their prospects.