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I'm about to begin a job search in the US, where I haven't lived for over a decade. I've got a bachelor's degree in economics, which I've never used and 24 graduate semester credits in finance, which I've never really used either. I'm assuming a lot has changed in those areas since I studied a decade ago, so I'm pretty clueless how I can leverage these degrees because I've worked in unrelated areas since I studied.
I can be completely flexible geographically, but I'm just not sure how I can use my degree in industry or financial services. I do know I'm not suited for sales jobs, so something analytical would be what I'd need to pursue.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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What experience do you have? I have one employee working for me with an economics degree, but when hired she had 12 years (3 were required) doing the work, utility rate analysis and billing. She started out working entry level for a local utility in customer service and moved up over several years.
My husband is in finance and is finding it nearly impossible to find a job. He has a BBA-Finance and is currently working for a multi-trillion $ (in assets) company. Even with his experience and the high regard for the company he's with he's put in at least 50 apps into various sectors of the finance field and got nothing. The field imo is flooded. Especially with no experience you're going to have to probably settle for a low paying entry level ($35,000) or less a year. I'm basing that off our extensive job search for the past 3 months. That seems to be the average pay for someone with 0-1 year experience.
My husband is in finance and is finding it nearly impossible to find a job. He has a BBA-Finance and is currently working for a multi-trillion $ (in assets) company. Even with his experience and the high regard for the company he's with he's put in at least 50 apps into various sectors of the finance field and got nothing. The field imo is flooded. Especially with no experience you're going to have to probably settle for a low paying entry level ($35,000) or less a year. I'm basing that off our extensive job search for the past 3 months. That seems to be the average pay for someone with 0-1 year experience.
December-February is absolute worst time to search due to hiring freeze until the new budget is out.
It doesn't matter how short-staffed and overloaded with work my co-workers were, executive management would let my manager hire anybody.
February is a bit overcrowded with all the people that got stuck during the hiring freeze. We had some of our best candidates apply then.
At my prior employers, November-February had the lowest number of new employee orientations of the year. The new employee orientations were much larger in March-June. All our reqs were approved, but there is a noticeable downturn in job applicants compared to February. The summer slows down quite a bit, as I would inquire with my boss for more applicants to interview to take the workload off me.
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