News of the obvious: Outlook bleak for new graduates
Posted on May 19, 2011 2 Comments
The New York Times Online’s front page today says “Tight Job Market Awaits College Graduates.” As if this is somehow new news.
Man-friend attended a job fair for lawyers in Chicago a few weeks ago and no one was even taking resumes. Most people he talked to said they were only there as “informational” resources. Let me repeat, not only were these organizations not hiring, they were NOT EVEN ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR CONSIDERATION. At a job fair.
He also tells me most of the jobs he hopes to apply for have clauses in the job description stipulating that new grads with less than two years experience should not apply.
I hope we are able to stay in Illinois — where my awesome job is, and our families are — and that he can find work here. Unfortunately, if he can’t find work in Chicago, even with 10 years of experience in the financial field and a respectable law degree (with intern and clinic experience), we won’t meet our goals and we’ll have to move elsewhere.
And he’s only one of many new grads I know in very similar positions, some who graduated last year and others earlier this year.
For the sake of all the new graduates we love, I hope the job market opens up soon.
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May 20th, 2011 @ 5:08 am
It’s tough. It’s really, really tough.
But even so, ANY and ALL education above and beyond a high school degree is for the good and will benefit you in the end.
*fingers crossed* for your awesome man-friend and for all the rest of us in this rocky economy. Just try to remember to breathe in and breathe out as we wait for the pendulum to swing back up.
May 25th, 2011 @ 11:25 pm
I come from a long line of teachers where stability is the norm. However, my wife is a teacher and the school system that she works in are laying off and furloughing teachers. Very scary when even educators are feeling the pinch that we in the private sector have.
I am doubly concerned because my daughter is about to graduate with a degree in education.