See usage @ http://www.employment-studies.co.uk/news/130art2.php

Please note that this suggestion would not cover the notion that these people start in their first job immediately after leaving ***school*** (but neither does the German term).

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Note added at 14 mins (2006-02-02 11:26:08 GMT)
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/social/ytpv-04.asp seems to use "direct job entrants" exactly in the intended meaning - see

"II Employment transitions

The second two clusters describe those who experienced relatively direct school to work transitions. Within the first cluster (14 per cent of the sample), young people typically remained in education until the age of 18: the average period spent in school beyond the minimum leaving age being 19 months with some having following FE based routes (these are described as the enhanced education group). Following educational completion, entry into work was fairly direct: the average time spent unemployed between the ages of 16 and 23 being a month and a half and with an average of a month being spent on schemes. With members of this group having made a fairly direct entry into the labour market, by age 23 they had been in full-time employment for an average of five and a half years.

In the second employment cluster (17 per cent of the sample) young people tended to have left school at an early stage (described as the direct job group) having spent an average of eight months in school beyond the minimum leaving age. Average time spent unemployed and on schemes between the ages of 16 and 23 was similar to the above group (a month and a half and a month respectively). Having made early and relatively direct transitions, members of this group had the most extensive experience of full-time employment in the sample (average of 7 years).

Young people following the direct job route tended to have poorer educational qualifications at age 16 than those following the enhanced education route. Among the former, 33 per cent had five or more O Grades at this stage as compared to 50 per cent in the latter group. Conversely, around one in five of those on a direct job route had no qualifications or modules only at age 16 compared to just 4 per cent of those who followed the enhanced educational route.

In terms of characteristics, these two clusters contain more females than males. Those following enhanced education routes tend to be slightly more advantaged than those who enter the labour market earlier: they were less likely to live in a SIP area and were more likely to have had parents in social classes V&VI.

While strong differences in educational qualifications were evident between the two groups at age 16, the subsequent experiences of the enhanced educational group (and the relative lack of further educational participation among ***direct job entrants***) led to an increased qualification ‘gap’ by age 23. At age 23, three out of ten young people who had followed the enhanced educational route had advanced qualifications (HND or above) as compared to one in ten of ***direct job entrants***."