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Originally Posted by Miss Crabcakes
I worked all throughout college, at a TV station, a telemarketing place, retail and yes fast food places. They were the only places that would hire me at 17, 18, and 19 years old. I put out over 100 resumes even trying to get some office experience and I also interned at 2 places before graduation; an ad agency and a network TV station. Still took me 10 months to land my first post-college job.
Internships and work experience does not guarantee a job right out of college but it gives you a valuable edge over the competition.
There has to be some way of managing the data concerning anticipated openings when a student graduates and the majors available at a college. Let's say there is data available that there is going to be a surplus of teachers in the field when a students graduates. The student will be alerted and they can change their major if they want. If they don't change it, cross their fingers is what they will need to do 4 years later. More grant funds can be directed to those majors/programs that will have openings when the student graduates as an incentive. I dream, yes.
JFK said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
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Originally Posted by JL
The key when going to college is ... internship(paid or non-paid). Before you graduate,
make sure you have worked as an intern or be part of the co-operate education program.
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Originally Posted by Chatteress
The key is using the time in college wisely by doing internships so you can have a leg on the competition.
That is for friggin' sure. It doesn't matter what you major in.
If you find your history degree wasn't up to snuff after a while,
get a Masters degree or take some vocational courses at the
community college.
The idea that you need to be done with college at age 22 or so is ridiculous.
JFK said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
I thought it was Abraham Lincoln in the same speech in which he announced he wouldn't accept his party's nomination due to continued headaches fighting the West Koreans in East Vietnam.
Too many kids today should'nt even be in college. Too many only take Liberal Arts, (which only teaches you the art of being liberal). The don't actually learn anything useful that can be transferred into job contributing to the profit of the company hiring them.
They do not want to take entry level jobs, I have a degree, look at me, which is where they get the real education. They have not yet proven their worth.
I know for one of my first jobs out of college, I got selected because I also had a good solid work history for 4 years. The interviewer told me that my grade point was almost too high - which it actually wasn't that high but he said he generally hired B students who had held a job over a straight A student who never did.
I think there's a lot of learning people can do with those character-building jobs that helps when trying to find any kind of job.
See, I have a master's and I kinda feel like in this economy it doesn't help much, if at all. I've had to take it out of many applications for fear of being tossed out as overqualified and I think when you have a master's, people assume you fall into a higher salary range that most aren't trying to pay these days. Even if that is not the case.
But what does a master's degree really mean to an employer? In and of itself that is.
I know one woman who graduated with a BS degree in business. She's 24 and has never worked a day in her life and cannot find a job in her field. So she's going back to school to get a masters - but then she'll be how old and still never worked a day in her life.
Meanwhile there are companies which give tuition assistance to their employees for them to get degrees while they work - and they'll be promoted after they advance in their studies.
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Originally Posted by mortimer
The idea that you need to be done with college at age 22 or so is ridiculous.
Most professions require employees to maintain currency in their field which may require going back to school for training.
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