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career opportunities pharmacists beyond commonly associated degree continue emerge paucity literature regarding evaluation pharmacy graduate career paths extended periods apparent considering international pharmacy workforce capacity pressures primary study aim evaluate trends career paths pharmacy graduates study utilised multimethod approach access graduate career data using publicly accessible information linkedin profiles online survey survey distributed pharmacy graduates university 20072022 data methods combined crosschecked coded analysed quantitatively using descriptive inferential statistics data 697 universitys pharmacy graduates collected community pharmacy prevalent employment sector 477 followed industry 215 hospital 177 higher proportion recent graduates 5 years postgraduation work community hospital pharmacy role versus graduated greater five years ago 2 844 df 2 p 005 postgraduate education undertaken 413 graduates career satisfaction high 882 lower 2 1131 df 1 p 005 community hospital 82 versus sectors 975 study provides first analysis graduate career paths extended period highlighting novel approach track pharmacist workforce almost two thirds pharmacy graduates occupy community hospital roles trend leaving settings five years postgraduation evident accordingly work represents springboard additional research inform future pharmacist workforce planning worldwide