Of course with a mask on…LOL
My daughter is an intern for one of the Big 4 in the consulting area – her internship is going to be shorter and all virtual AND they already offered her a position for 2021 when she graduates.
Mine too – same idea one of the big accounting firms.
My daughter is an intern for one of the Big 4 in the consulting area – her internship is going to be shorter and all virtual AND they already offered her a position for 2021 when she graduates.
I am surprised too – the whole recruiting process is a large undertaking so I cannot see them throwing that away.
True but that WILL change, I work consulting and big firms always end up making money out of bad circumstances once the dust settles.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them…Andy Grove
@CUsucceed Two of the three schools are on Handshake. The other has something school-specific.
Right now the two new staffers are doing well. Today they had time to work on marketing materials and changing text on the web site. And some challenging customer service!
I haven’t been keeping up with this thread, but my daughter (firm job starting now in Sep/Oct. Was supposed to begin in June) has had an interesting few emails from her future employer, which has seen its business boom during this crisis.
First, they had a meeting to stress that she 100% has a job. They have hired their own epidemiologist who has told them that the earliest it will be possible to start the management trainees is Sept. This company doesn’t feel that virtual training will work for them.
But, the company is clearly concerned that these new hires will find jobs elsewhere as the waiting goes on. They will be giving the management trainees their relocation advances early. My daughter is thrilled, because she will be able to pay off a chunk of her student loan with the money and still have enough left over for her relocation expenses. It does make me wonder that this company seems to believe there must be jobs enough to lure bright grads away from other offers.
Second, she has just started a good part time summer job, which could become permanent if she decides she doesn’t want the first job for whatever reason. This job is doing remote work for a university research project. They offered her full time, and she explained that she has a job lined up in the fall, but was happy to work until then. They were so desperate for someone to do the work, that they agreed to that. She is relieved not to have to be a delivery driver, which was her other thought for keeping busy this summer.
To me, it is interesting that there are still jobs to be had out there. What will the job market be like for uneducated people going forward? I am so grateful we have been able to give our daughter the gift of an education.
I am still concerned for my son who will be a college soph in the fall. Is getting a meaningful internship next summer going to be like finding a unicorn? He is supposed to be life guarding soon, but it seems that is up in the air. He plans to do instacart if all else fails. Not a bad idea.
@Lindagaf – wow, that’s great for your D! Do you mind sharing her general field? Just curious where the market is still hot!
@AlmostThere2018 , she majored in Psych but also has a very solid background in Stats. She was a stats TA in college. The summer job she now has is due to that experience. The company she will work for in early fall is a manufacturer. It’s not a glamorous job, but the benefits and pay are truly fantastic. She was offered the job back in early November and very much considered it to be her fall-back job, but she is now so thankful she has it.
@Lindagaf – Tks, that’s helpful. My D is bio/math and wants to do the academic route, but I’m always trying to help her think about skills and experiences that will translate to private sector since the academic market can be so brutal. (She has no interest in pre-med or other health professional.) I think the applied math and coding would be her ticket if she leaves academia. . .
So glad your D has a job lined up!
Just this week my D17 was contacted to interview for 5 different new internships. She was offered one internship and is waiting to hear from the other 4. She said she was just excited that people seem to still be reading applications. I wonder if things are starting to look-up?
@AlmostThere2018 , believe me, this is not her dream job. It was definitely the last thing she thought she would do. I think graduating students, and all students, for the next few years are going to have to consider things they wouldn’t have otherwise considered and will also need to think outside the box.
That is fantastic, Cusucceed. What field is your D in?
The non sexy manufacturing jobs are going strong, especially consumable consumer products, food manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical/health care. Those companies never shut down. My husband’s company did suspend their internship programs but they are hiring for full timers in all their plants across the country. All their new grad hires started.
@TheGFG She is a Public Policy and Linguistic major. The interships are over a wide range, some she has very little experience with…From working in DC to a think tank studying terrorism to women’s rights in war zones to healthcare in prisons. Some are able to be done completely online and others are in-person. She had really almost given up and had planned to study for the LSAT and GRE. She said many of the internships communicated they were behind with the interview process because of COVID19.
My S had an overseas internship lined up. They held off as long as possible and finally cancelled in early May. (This was a private program, not through his university.). A few weeks before the program was officially cancelled, my S reached out to the company and asked if they would consider a remote internship, and they said yes. It is still being coordinated through the private organization, 25 hours a week for 6 weeks. It’s in the data science field. He will fill in the rest of the summer with an on line class and a programming project my husband, who is also a techie, has developed for him. He’s of course disappointed to lose the overseas experience but glad to have a good internship in his field.
My D graduated in December. She started a new job the first week in March, and was cut two weeks later on day one of the shut down. She wasn’t even there long enough to put it on her resume. Really threw her off her game. She’s just now starting to apply from scratch.
Excellent posts, @eastcoast101 and @CUsucceed .
My rising college sophomore son heard back from the pool management company he is planning to lifeguard for. He had emailed to say that if the pools weren’t opening, he could do pool maintenance instead (we have a home pool.) Today they emailed to say they plan to open in later June, he will be a lifeguard manager, and that he can definitely do pool maintenance if that’s all they can offer. Not his ideal launch into the glamorous world of finance, but at least he took initiative.
D2’s law summer internship is now officially all remote for 4 weeks, but will still get paid for 11 weeks.
I am in data related work and in the last few weeks I have been approached by more recruiters than any other time. The salaries they are throwing around is crazy. If your kids with CS, stats, math background I would encourage them to go into data analytics. Many companies are using data to do predictive analytics for their business. It is the case in consulting too.
@oldfort: “I am in data related work and in the last few weeks I have been approached by more recruiters than any other time. The salaries they are throwing around is crazy. If your kids with CS, stats, math background I would encourage them to go into data analytics. Many companies are using data to do predictive analytics for their business. It is the case in consulting too.”
I have to both shake my head, give a silent, knowing nod and hold my tongue at this, oldfort. CS, stats, and math are precisely what my daughter’s degree will be in when it is conferred. Unknown to me until she returned because of Covid-19, she is committed to working in the public sector.
She is interviewing and things seem to be going well (she leaves her little home office after hours of interviewing with a lilt in her voice and a buoyant disposition). There is not much that worries her about her prospects other than having access to a high-use public transportation system, both because she does not want us to have to buy a car for her as well as her relationship to the push against carbon emissions, pollution, overuse of resources, and the like.
For now anyway, she won’t even look at large private firms. Maybe I should show her your comment.