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I have an MS degree in chemical engineering, yet I've been unemployed for six months after getting a job for a little more than a year after finishing school.
I have an MS degree in chemical engineering, yet I've been unemployed for six months after getting a job for a little more than a year after finishing school.
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Go pitch a tent in a public park and scream and yell about it. You may also want to defecate on police vehicles. That seems to be effective.
I have an MS degree in chemical engineering, yet I've been unemployed for six months after getting a job for a little more than a year after finishing school.
Go.
If you dont know what you should be doing, then clearly you overpaid for that degree.
If you dont know what you should be doing, then clearly you overpaid for that degree.
I shouldn't be responding to a hostile post like this, but obviously I know I'm supposed to be searching for jobs, particularly those where my skill set is in demand.
I'm talking both practically in the short-term and philosophically in the long-term.
I have an MS degree in chemical engineering, yet I've been unemployed for six months after getting a job for a little more than a year after finishing school.
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Here is a site you can try. I don't know how extessive it is yet, but it's building.
I have an MS degree in chemical engineering, yet I've been unemployed for six months after getting a job for a little more than a year after finishing school.
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Answer these questions first
1. What was your plan before you got your degree?
2. What are you doing to find a job right now?
3. How many hours/week do you volunteer?
4. How many hours/week do you spend networking?
5. How many hours/week do you spend studying new skills?
6. How many connections have you made in your field through both grad school and undergrad alumni networks?
7. Why did you leave that first job out of school?
8. What was your backup plan in case you were fired/laid off from that first job?
Once we know the answers to these questions, we can get started helping you out.
I have an MS degree in chemical engineering, yet I've been unemployed for six months after getting a job for a little more than a year after finishing school.
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Have you applied ad DuPont or DOW? Maybe it is your personality that is keeping you from being hire.
I shouldn't be responding to a hostile post like this, but obviously I know I'm supposed to be searching for jobs, particularly those where my skill set is in demand.
I'm talking both practically in the short-term and philosophically in the long-term.
In the short term take any job you can get to survive. I bet WalMart and McDonalds are hiring. However....let me guess: That would be beneath you. I also wouldn't be surprised to hear that you've rejected some jobs in your field because they weren't "good enough". Establish a personal network and use it as much as possible. That will net much better results than a job board. Join linkedin if you're not on already. If you only have one year of job experience make sure your expectations are reasonable. Accept a junior position and build experience if neccessary.
I was in the mortgage industry until it went bust. I went from a beautiful six figure executive level sales management job with outstanding benefits to being unemployed and not being able to put food on the table. I tried other sales jobs but I didn't have the fire in me anymore so I failed. From the doghouse to the penthouse to the outhouse is how my story reads.
I ended up taking a part time position as a firearms instructor and now I'm working on turning it into a new full time career in a business of my own. When you're doing something fun it doesn't feel like work. Unfortunately it took me twenty plus years to figure that out.
Get a LinkedIn account and add everyone you know. List all your qualifications. Check your classmates' pages to make sure you have everything listed that you can. I know LinkedIn looks at first like Monster.com where it is full of scams and headhunters that never actually get you a job, but LinkedIn is surprisingly effective. It got me my current job, and I wasn't even looking for a new job. I still get job inquiries on a weekly basis, and I have listed that I'm not looking for a job. (Most of these inquiries are a few hundred miles away, so again, be open to relocation.)
Chemical engineering is, from everything I've heard, a great major to have to get a job.
Apply to at least one job a day, every day.
Talk to your employed classmates. See if their companies are hiring.
Attend your college's career fair.
(None of this is "conservative" advice , by the way)
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