The use of PES, on the other hand, is not limited by social capital but strongly related to the individual employment prospects. Graduates with poor job prospects (either because they did obtain poor marks in the study, or belong to an educational group with exces supply, or live in areas with weak labour-market conditions) are generally over-represented among the PES clients. This supports the labour-market hypothesis, predicting that the users of PES are a selected group of job searchers with lower initial quality and employability than users of other job search methods. This is in line with the official goals of the PES, which is established in the labour market in order to assist those job searchers that meet problems finding a job on their own account. Thus, we may conclude that PES succeeds in reaching its target group.