<p>Sorry for ranting in advance but this really ****es me off.</p>
<p>So when I walk around campus, I constantly hear people complaining about how the job market sucks, no ones hiring and all the things the media would like us to believe. </p>
<p>Anyway just by looking at the job listings on Impact, Hireme and the LSA career connector thing, you can see almost just as many listings as there were in 2007. Are there less? Sure. Is it that significant? No. And more importantly, people are still getting interviews. </p>
<p>So do you guys think "the job market sucks" has become to convenient excuses for those:
1) who are too lazy to polish their resume to a good standard
2) who just have bad gpa
3) who never bothered gaining internship experience
4) who never bothered participating in any out of class activities or obtaining leadership positions
5) who majored in Asian Studies with a bad gpa and dont have facebook</p>
<p>I just don't think its fair for everyone to have to be negatively affected by this kind of bull crap. I definitely was.</p>
<p>Please chime in. Just thought this is interesting.</p>
<p>Bearcats…there is some truth to what you say, however…from my experience working in the corporate world for years I would say the following:</p>
<p>-Getting an interview doesn’t mean all that much. I’ve worked for years in corporations and seen my managers go on recruiting visits. They collect hundreds of resumes. They interview 15 people and not hire a soul. They do this to “keep a presence on the campus”.</p>
<p>-Sometimes my managers had hiring recs that are pulled 1 week after an interview. In one case my manager made an offer to somebody and human resources called the guy back the next day recinding the offer. Before I went to school here, I interviewed with a company amd they called me and said they wanted to make an offer. Three weeks later, the company went on a hiring freeze.</p>
<p>Bearcats, I think there is a widening gap between the ‘best-of’ and ‘mediocre’ hires right now. I think highly ranked candidates are in demand and can tell you that recruiter pals of mine are seeing an uptick or warming in IT for embedded developers, C++ etc.; and that my ENG recruiter associates are seeing an improvement for highly technical positions in chem, bio, etc. which had indeed been soft this last year (ENG overall, b/c of the energy & mfg industries).</p>
<p>So, short strokes are that if your game is very together, true and outstanding talent is still easily placed if same has <em>some</em> experience and reliable indicators of success. Middle of the road talent is taking considerably longer to place than it may have previously in a strong labor market – still placing, but taking longer to. </p>
<p>Then there’s the category of candidate like one who’s res I saw yesterday, ridden with the equivalent of text-speak, non-sequiters and sentence fragments belying a shoddy soggy brain and a complete disregard for business formalities, such as making sense : ) I think it is possible for an occasional grad to somehow bypass the common sense department and then perhaps blame the economy (like the candidate did in her cover letter to which I am referring) for his or her failure to obtain employment.</p>
<p>This is just a casual observation in my neck of the woods, but that’s word on the street here.
I believe people make their own opportunities and that the trick is to simply be “unstoppable.” So disregard the crap, BC.
Cheers,
K</p>