<p>Wow…I am appalled. I just recently graduated…If you think your situation is bad, African Americans are unemployed at 17% here in the US. Which I am part of that 17%. No one is hiring entry level chemical engineers that much. A company willl and can take a mechanical engineer if needed. I see alot of jobs for ME, EE, Enviro E, and CE’s all the time. I don’t know where you guys are looking. I think chemical engineers got hit the hardest. This site is so discouraging because it took me a while to get my degree, 14 years to be exact. I had to leave school, work to get myself financially together and took a huge risk by leaving my job to finish my education in engineering. I will admit though I have had 2 interviews and a POSS test. No offers though. All three companies were out-of-state trying to hire. Show some positivity please.</p>
<p>Sure there are many jobs for engineers in the U.S. that you can find on any number of different job search web sites. Now just try getting an interview for any of those jobs. When you find out there are 10, 15, 20 or more qualified candidates for every position you will see that simply being well qualified isn’t enough. Having inside connections and just plain luck are more important than you would admit.</p>
<p>I think a lot of you guys are over-reacting, the unemployment rate for people with a bachelors degree or better is at 4.5% which isn’t bad at all. It’s 9.5% for everyone and about 15% for people who didn’t graduate high school, so getting the degree is still worth it even during the recession.</p>
<p>@PV81410 on the brighter side, African Americans with college degrees had an unemployment rate of 8.4% in November.</p>