Employment, re: 2 years experience (job market, school, colleges)

[VietlOtUs]

Please allow me to vent. How the heck do you expect someone to gain experience if you haven't allow the person the opportunity to build experience???!!!! So depressing as I continue to look for employment. : smack:




For all the money we put forward for a college/career education, maybe we should be given an entry level job straight out of school. Entry level jobs should be placed by colleges.

[THX 1138]

It takes years, unless your lucky...here it can take a lifetime if never. Jobs, or should I say careers, here on average are poor compared to other metro areas....poor paying and minimal opportunity.

[gomexico]

If I were just out of college, and not in one of the high-profile professions (medicine, law, accounting, etc.) S. Florida wouldn't be a place I'd want to be looking for work. What college students have to do is to find intern opportunities starting their freshman/sophmore years in hopes that they will be invited to return each year and then offered a job after graduation ... or to have that internship experience appear on the resume for experience purposes. I think too many students wait too long to think about work after college and enter the job market unprepared. Best of luck to those of you looking for work.

[TriMT7]

What field are you in now? Or rather, what field did you obtain your degree in?

[THX 1138]

Salaries will still be low for many on average even in relation to the high COL here. One of my former interns, who I brought in full-time last year, just gave me his 2 weeks notice yesterday, got a better offer out of State so he is bailing as are a lot of recent grads. He wasn't living with his parents anymore, so I knew it was only a matter of time...even in the lucrative profession I work in there is better pay elsewhere.

[VietlOtUs]

Tri: I am in the dental field. I did get an offer from a corporate-run office but I had walked away. Being at my age, it's sad to admit that $ matters to me, but if I have to earn it by over diagnosing patients or trying to sell dental procedures, I cannot. It's just not me nor is it the way I want to practice.

I guess I will just have to temp here and there to build some experience.

[cfbs2691]

Originally Posted by gomexico

If I were just out of college, and not in one of the high-profile professions (medicine, law, accounting, etc.) S. Florida wouldn't be a place I'd want to be looking for work. What college students have to do is to find intern opportunities starting their freshman/sophmore years in hopes that they will be invited to return each year and then offered a job after graduation ... or to have that internship experience appear on the resume for experience purposes. I think too many students wait too long to think about work after college and enter the job market unprepared. Best of luck to those of you looking for work.

Well said!!!