Heads up to hs/college students

College Majors Business Major
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<p>You are almost always worthless in the job market without:</p>

<p>A) A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience in your field</p>

<p>B) Graduated from a top tier school with 3.2+ gpa, and held leadership roles. Likely would also need good internships/co-ops on your resume as well.</p>

<p>C) Graduated from a no-name school with 3.0+, but have good connections in companies with people who will speak well for you.</p>

<p>D) Or all the above, in many cases.</p>

<p>In short, don't expect to graduate from a typical school, with no internships, a mediocre gpa of 2.8 - 3.2, and no relevant work experience in your field, and without any real connections, and then hope to land a job. You won't even get 30k a year. You'll be lucky to make $10/hr at a job you could of had at age 16.</p>

<p>I'm saying this because I hope other students don't end up in my situation. A college degree alone is next to worthless in the world today. (expect for very specialized fields). There's always exceptions to the rule, but this is the case now.</p>

<p>Do not believe those news articles on how Bachelors degrees in such and such field are getting starting salaries of 40-45k a year. That's only true for grads who have years of experience in their field already. I remember in 2002 while first looking at colleges, all these articles saying how an accounting major can expect offers of 45k, marketing 40k, finance 45k and so on. Seven years later and I can't get half that, and I consider myself a very valuable sharp mind.</p>

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<p>Means you suck =/</p>

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<p>You went to Central Connecticut State University, and it’s not even AACSB accredited.</p>

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<p>Wow, I didn’t even realize that. I guess I dropped the ball on researching accreditations for the school I’m going to. </p>

<p>But that’s not a big big deal to most employers, is it? My lack of financial work experience is much more of a detriment, I would think.</p>

<p>“AACSB International accreditation is widely regarded as the highest level of accreditation for business schools, as only 25 percent of US business schools achieve AACSB International accreditation”</p>

<p>So, I don’t know how you define top-tier, but top 25% could be one way. I KNOW CCSU was not anywhere near top-tier. </p>

<p>So you mean to say that a business degree from a school that is not in the top 25% is THE reason I can’t get a job?</p>

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<p>Yes. School matters so much it’s ridiculous. The career services do all the dirty work of bringing the employers to come interview you.</p>

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<p>couldn’t the problem be “you” as in whats going on inside?</p>

<p>keep trying…dont give up?</p>

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<p>What I gather from the responses here is that graduates from ‘good’ schools are not having a problem getting decent jobs?</p>

<p>Most people I know who recently graduated are having the same problem as me and some didn’t go to my school.</p>

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<p>What did you study? Might be good to know.</p>

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<p>I majored in Finance. My school got me one interview for a good internship, but other than that, there’s just a website with job postings. (I wasn’t selected for that internship, obviously).</p>

<p>Also, I moved out of state (from CT, to TX now) because I didn’t want to stay in CT any longer due to hating cold weather. So I doubt my school can actually help now that I’m not in CT any longer.</p>