<p>I plan on graduating in August with my BS in Psychology. I am not planning on going to graduate school right away. Instead, I am looking into Human Resources and more organizational related jobs. How far in advance should I start looking? I feel like now might be a bit too early, I was thinking around may.</p>
<p>You should have applied much earlier. Do it now before most companies are done with their on-campus recruitment cycle. My son will graduate in May. He started with on-campus recruitment activities last September. He got his first offer in October and will start his full time job this July.</p>
<p>If I’m not graduating until August, I don’t see how applying in September (almost a full year before I graduate) would have helped me? I was told 3-4 months prior is a good time period.</p>
<p>It really depends whether you want to go through on-campus recruitment. On-campus recruitment is the best place for a new graduate to land his/her first professional job. Most companies start recruiting in the Fall Term. From September to early December is where most of the activities taken place. Many students made the mistake of applying late. You should check with your school’s Career Center/Office for recommendation.</p>
<p>It depends on the industry. For consulting, banking and engineering, on campus recruitment offers the best opportunities, and that happens in the fall, so someone graduating in August would start a full year before he could start. It’s win-win: big companies know who their new hires are going to be with plenty of time to spare, and students can enjoy the end of their last year of college.</p>
<p>I graduated in December, 2010 and started my job search in June of 2010 with hopes of starting my job in March of 2011 or later, and I’m extremely glad I did.</p>
<p>I completely understand why those majors need to start looking early. But, I am graduating with a degree in psychology and going in to human resources. There is lots of turn over with these kinds of jobs so searching a year in advance is a bit unrealistic to me.</p>
<p>Not really, actually. Though it isn’t as common, HR departments (especially at large companies) do fall recruitment. If you have yet to begin, you should. There is no down side to applying far in advance.</p>
<p>Biologynerd, I had a job offer lined up my Spring semester of Junior year. Please tell me you atleast had internships?</p>
<p>iloveyounow, good for you! that’s great you had a chance to figure out what you were doing right away. I have been working the entire time I have been in school and switched my major to psychology in spring of junior year. I do have internships but its unrealistic to me to have had my entire job lined up by then. I didn’t even start psychology until junior year.</p>
<p>And I did attend a career fair on campus. There were no HR representatives there.</p>
<p>Unless you are hot, no one is going to hire you.</p>
<p>haha oh i get it, you’re a full time ■■■■■ 
how cute.</p>