Perhaps your daughter should consider temping? It will give her experience of a real job (as a graduate, indicating on a cv that her only work experience is waitressing won't get her very far) and some real money so that she could perhaps flat share. In my experience (having worked with a variety of uni's) those with a lower status tended to do more about careers fairs than the traditional uni's but possibly not in careers with the same degree of glamour or status.
Perhaps the need for money will prompt her to look for proper employment - do you ask for a donation for her "keep"? When I lived at home and had left education I was always expected to donate to the household expenses (even if I worked part time). It certainly spurred me on to find a well paid job as "keep" was a fixed weekly rate so the more I earnt the more I had for myself.
One thing I do know is that the longer she doesn't have a proper job the harder it will be to get one as employers do take notice of how long a graduate leaves between leaving education and taking a job (one of my team at the moment took a full-time shop job after leaving uni until he could get the sort of job he was qualified for just so that there wasn't a big gap in his cv). The job centre have staff who can offer career guidance (the are used to unemployed graduates and post grads these days) so maybe suggest she makes an appointment as the longer she leaves it the harder it will get (and depression could set in).
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