Why is it hard for college grads to find jobs?
Mar.28, 2010 in
College Jobs
Most people have the hardest times finding a job dealing with their majors but i really want to know why no one hires them and wonder why its hard to have a good replacement after their employee retires after 20 or 30 years.
March 28th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
There is an economic slump; it’s hard for anyone to find a job. And, sometimes a college grad, with no work experience, has unrealistic ideas of what a job should be like.
March 28th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
There are too many college graduates that they don’t really stand out when it comes time for finding a job. That’s why gaining some kind of practical experience in an internship or summer job or something can be good to do during undergrad.
March 28th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
I just graduated college and finding a job isn’t hard, but it isn’t easy. Depending on the field you want to get in to you should apply early as some application processes tend to be lengthier than others, particularly in government agencies. Also, many employers like experience. Try to get an internship before you graduate (if you haven’t already), it will open more doors for you.
It is harder because they choose people with experience and it sucks because they might not have as much education as you but they have the required job skills.
March 28th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Well it really depends on what your major is. I am studying pharmacy and most of my peers in the health care field have not had any problems finding jobs when they graduate. The good thing about a degree like that is that it is specialized, like nursing…you want to be a nurse, or pharmacy, you want to be a pharmacist. With degrees such as english or history, there are more possibilities, and there isn’t a set career path for someone in that major. So oftentimes people will have trouble deciding what they want to do with such a major.
March 28th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Just having a degree isn’t enough anymore. Employers want good writing skills, good presentation skills, and substantive skills that are in demand. Teachers, social workers, nurses, medical technologists and engineers don’t have any trouble getting jobs. Psychology majors with no distinctive experiences and a C- average who don’t prepare will have trouble finding a job. Having a degree used to be a goal, now it’s the entry card to get into decent jobs, and it’s getting to be more required but less regarded without what I mentioned above.
March 28th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
First, it’s hard for everyone to find a job. The economy is in a poor position right now.
Most people don’t retire after 20-30 years. If we assume graduation at age 21 and retirement at age 65, you have a 44+ year working life. Many of them have a college degree (or two) too but they also have as much as 40 years of real world work experiences. It’s nearly impossible for a fresh grad to compete with those folks for jobs.
Then again, those people aren’t applying for entry level jobs that fresh grads should be applying for. The problem is that the fresh grads seem to think it’s ok to apply for jobs like Sr. VP of Finance because they have a BA in History and were an intern for a semester in the campus bookstore.
The fresh grads made a real error in selecting majors. Someone told them all that “if you go to college, you’ll get a better job” which is only partly true. Many selected a major (often from the liberal arts) and then after graduation starting thinking “what can I do with this major”? We don’t hear that from most engineering grads for example.
As for your other question, it’s not usually hard to find a good replacement after employees retire. There are plenty of people out there that want that job and are finely qualified in most cases. It’s not the jobs at the top (near retirement) end that are hard to fill, it’s the jobs at the bottom that we call entry-level. They’re hard to fill because 21 year old fresh grads with a BA in History and a minor in Literature from No-name State U seem to think that a good starting range for an inexperienced new worker is $75,000 and anything less is beneath them.
just a few thoughts – some people disagree…
March 28th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
they are too choosy.