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Across the board, the job market for this year's 1.7 million college graduates looks more promising than in past years -- though finding work will still be difficult, according to [outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas].
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<p>Science-</a>, math-related majors headed for high salaries - chicagotribune.com</p>
<p>I work for a company that hires engineers. We usually hire 5-6 new college grads in my department alone. This year, we put in our request for 2 college grads in November. Both of them will be students who have previously interned with us. </p>
<p>Recently, our workload took a very high uptick, and we are in need of a few more, which we were quickly able to fill.</p>
<p>Great news for college grads (and recent college grads who haven’t landed their career jobs yet)!</p>
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<p>However, the most popular science major is biology, which <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html</a> generally show to have much lower pay at graduation than most other science majors.</p>
<p>THis is only cautiously good news. They note:</p>
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<p>Across the board, not everyone is going to walk into a $75,000 job.</p>
<p>Those with certain types of tech degrees, from schools with excellent reputations and good on-campus-recruiting, may be candidates for such jobs. But the majority of graduates still won’t be. </p>
<p>annasdad, you have often drawn our attention to research that suggests that, in terms of educational quality, it doesn’t matter what college you go to. But what about in terms of job opportunities after graduation?</p>
<p>S1 graduates in a few short weeks and still nothing - despite that tech degree/school rep. Job postings in his field are few and far between, all posting the requirement for at least 5 years experience.</p>
<p>Some of the job examples in that article seemed to reflect average salaries in the field (eg for an IT MANAGER) not new grads. That said, there are some jobs in IB and engineering that offer nice starting salaries, though the starting salary offers for younger son in engineering this year were slightly less than what older s, also in eng. was offered 4 yrs ago (though different companies and chem vs mech E)</p>
<p>And totally agree with UMMom. It is so hard to land that first job right out of school with little/no experience. Many, MANY job postings require a few years of experience, and the online job application portals on many company websites for new grads seem to go into a black hole.</p>
<p>Jym626- Mine is ME too. Didn’t get anything thru school, job board pickings are slim, don’t know where to turn now to even land an interview.</p>
<p>Which UM are you? Miami? Minnesota? Which side of the continent is he on? I’ll ask my DS. Did yours have any internships? Does he want a particular field ? Oil and Gas? Water? Electric? etc? I’ll ask my DS</p>
<p>UM is S2. We are northeast and I believe he is most interested in aero. Two year internship at company not related to field of study. Wasn’t motivated enough.</p>
<p>My S1 will be graduating from Rutgers with an electrical engineering degree. He He starts at his job 10 days after graduation. He went to every job fair that he could, did alot of searching on the internet. Alot of his friends have not found jobs yet though.</p>
<p>UM- I sent you a PM but it may not be what you are looking for.</p>
<p>D is graduating in mechE also. Still no job. Heard from a company where she had an onsite interview earlier, yesterday, they decided to not hire new grads in that dept. Don’t know if they didn’t like any of the people they interviewed or if they decided they didn’t have time to train a new grad. Company is bringing her back for another onsite interview next week to interview in two different departments. Hope that means they want to try and hire her.</p>
<p>She flys to an interview this weekend but it’s so late. Hope this means companies are waiting to hire. Because in a month she graduates and we have no idea what or where to go. Needs to be out of the apartment she is in now June 1, other than that no idea. </p>
<p>It’s so stressful. She is applying and applying. She goes to school half way across the country from us. I don’t think coming home after graduation is a great idea as name recognition and job opportunities are in the area her school is located in and would be hard to interview from our remote location.</p>
<p>She received an email yesterday from a company wanting to interview her next week. Hopefully that happens. </p>
<p>Trying not to panic lol!</p>
<p>I spoke to a coworker yesterday with MIT contacts and he told me that MIT grads are getting jobs but many are having to settle for more ordinary jobs; not the Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. type jobs.</p>
<p>I’ve been looking at the Internships threads here and the impression that I get is that internships are much harder to come by than they were a few years ago. I also think that you have to jump through more hoops this year than in past years (you need internships, good to great GPA, courses or experience in bleeding edge technology).</p>
<p>I believe that there is pent-up demand for STEM grads but employers are still choosy. Son was told that he’s going to train new lab hires this summer so it appears that his workplace will be hiring a few bio majors - I don’t know if they will have grad degrees or undergrad degrees. I asked him if he’s going to be part of the hiring process (his group has three people) and he said that he doesn’t know.</p>
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<p>Went through that last year with our son (there’s a long thread on the same topic for 2011) so he started grad school and was offered a job and took it a few months ago - he still has a few more courses to go to finish his masters but getting the first job was the important thing. Yes, it is stressful and frustrating but it sounds like your daughter is doing reasonably well - there are threads on job and internship hunts where students don’t get any responses to their applications.</p>
<p>deb922, your D may want to look into a sublet for June and July from a student who will be leaving for the summer. Our S luckily found an internship for this summer, so he has to rent a place in another state for that. The lease on his housing for next year starts June 1, but the tenant currently living there asked if she could sublet it from him for the summer. She is a senior and wants to stay local while she job hunts. He will put most of his stuff in storage and it becomes a win-win.</p>
<p>We feel very fortunate that S who is a senior accounting major was able to land an internship this Spring which resulted in a job offer following graduation. Many of his friends are still looking for that first post-college job offer. It seems as though the job market is still pretty tight for new college graduates.</p>
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<p>It’s never too late for a job, LOL!</p>
<p>I’ve told the story before where D was 1 WEEK away from graduation with nothing on the horizon but a plan to take the summer off and start looking for a job in the fall. She started a training program at the end of June for a company that she’s been working for for the past 4 years. Wrecked her summer plans, LOL!</p>
<p>She’ll be taking that summer off this summer–plans to quit her job at the end of May and travel before relocating to either the East or West Coast, depending on where she finds a job. It never ends…</p>
<p>Good luck to your D–and don’t feel like graduation day is a make or break time limit. What with multiple interviews, etc., it could take the summer to line up a career job. Try not to stress…</p>
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<p>D says she would like to do an unpaid internship when she graduates this spring, for a company where one of her friends works. She’s very excited about this option and it will give her good experience and some contacts. We will support her in it, if that is what she wants to do, as she never was able to fit an internship into her schedule when she was a student. We & she are hopeful that this will lead to a full-time job with that company or another.</p>