<p>call back this weekend. I am sure they don’t expect you to start on Monday, and the lack of a car shouldn’t keep you from picking up the phone.</p>
<p>My S just got a job offer! Full-time, in a field he is interested in that relates to his major. Reasonable salary (but unfortunately in NYC where the cost of living anywhere commutable is :eek:) and 20 vacation days! He will also have reviews every 6 months for the first 18 months, after that it’s yearly. Fortunately for him he can live with his grandparents for a while, save some money, and decide where he wants to live with no time constraints. :D</p>
<p>The odd thing was how he found out about this job. His younger sister’s boyfriend is a rising senior at another college, but in a similar major to S. He was hunting for summer internships, and a family friend emailed him this job posting. Unfortunately for the BF it was for a full-time permanent position, but he was nice enough to forward the posting along to S and tell him, “Mention that you heard about it from me.” </p>
<p>Emheelvul, if the guy gave you his cell number and said to call him this weekend - call him this weekend. Why wait till Monday?</p>
<p>Congratulations!!! D1 is going through sticker shock right now about how expensive NYC is.</p>
<p>Why would your dad tell you not to call until Monday? Just curious…</p>
<p>Agree, Treetopleaf, helps to be open minded geographically for entry-level engineering jobs. Get those first crucial years’ experience, stick with the job for long enough to look like a good risk, then re-pepper your resume and killer cover letter!</p>
<p>Congrats Lafalum84. Such wonderful news. They’re young, they can manage the sacrifices needed to live cheap in an expensive city. An important note for folks from your story though. Most jobs are found through someone else you know or someone they know. When looking for a job tell everyone you know and meet and have the 30 second elevator pitch of what you are looking for. You never know where the next lead will come from. Neighbor’s came from a chance meeting of old friend in the grocery store who knew someone at work who was looking for someone. .</p>
<p>Congrats, lafalum84. 
I bet you and your S are relieved to have made it to this point!</p>
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<p>I have no idea, it was a short conversation because he was in a restaurant, he said he’d call me later. My only guess is that he’s afraid the guy will want me to start on Monday and he knows my car is going to be in the shop. He called the shop ahead yesterday and made arrangements for me to bring it Sunday night for them to fix on Monday. He’s on vacation with my mom on the other side of the country.</p>
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<p>If that is the only reason, I’m sure you could find some neighbor who could give you a ride for one day…</p>
<p>New York is very expensive but it’s a great city - especially for young, single people. Take advantage of it - some of the best things are free like just walking around. There are lots of free things all the time - outdoor movies, salsa dancing, etc. Also, you don’t need a car, so that’s one expense you can deduct.</p>
<p>As the original poster it has been fun to watch the twists and turns that this thread has gone thru. Orignial post was a result of my frustration at my son’s apparent lack of effort in the job search at that time. </p>
<p>Seems that finding a job after college is tough but not impossible. Been some good advice given in the course of this discussion. Best advice is just to network. He has been using LinkedIN. Also, he got some good leads for some small companies thru Craig’s List.</p>
<p>To update: </p>
<p>My son graduated with degree in mechanical engineering in June. Overall GPA wasn’t the greatest (ie. below 3.0) mostly as a result of his poor sophomore year performance (some general ed requirements have been a continuing grade issue for him). GPA his senior year was about 3.4. School he attended is known for being “C” centered in many of the engineering classes, so a 3.4 is actually pretty good.</p>
<p>He has gotten a fair number of leads and submitted his resume. Has heard back from half a dozen or so with phone interviews. Each of his phone interviews has led to an inplant interview (or one scheduled), so doing well in that respect. Inplant interviews have all been within the last week, so hasn’t received any actual job offers yet, but he thinks he will hear soon on a couple.</p>
<p>Dad (ie. me) isn’t soo frustrated with him at this point. Guess he really needed to keep up with his school work while in school and had no time to really put the effort into the job search.</p>
<p>Interesting to note:</p>
<p>Interesting to me anyways. Two of his inplant interviews have included some sort of test. In my day as a hiring engineering manager never thought to test anyone as I used their college grades for that purpose. Is testing as common as it seems these days? One test was a visualization test with rotating shapes. The second company had some design problems that he had to work.</p>
<p>HPuck, S’s job is in finance, and the first thing he had to do when arriving for his interviews was to take 2 tests: one on Excel, and one was a writing sample. He was told about them before he came, and was told the Excel test wasn’t a make-or-break kind of thing. They knew they would have to teach nearly everyone who starts straight out of college some advanced Excel skills, but they just wanted to know how much they’d have to teach.</p>
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<p>What? Did I miss the memo?</p>
<p>HPuck testing is very common in Computer Science. Even though people say that courses are similar everywhere, I think they still want to see how quick on your feet you are. I had an interesting conversation with my brother (VP of a small company.) They were interviewing someone they liked very much, she’d taken a couple of years off (playing WOW) and they were a little worried about her. They told her there would be a test and she asked for the weekend to study for it as she was rusty. She also asked to be given a general idea of what would be on the test. Apparently she was the first to ever ask!! :eek:! Anyway she aced the test, they hired her and she’s been a great employee. </p>
<p>Glad to hear kids are starting to get nibbles.</p>
<p>I GOT THE JOB!!!</p>
<p>The starting salary is 31k with annual bonuses and full benefits plus two weeks paid vacation. Not bad for a new poli sci grad! I’M SO HAPPY! It’s not in political science, but it is in the industry that I chose as my interest once I decided I didn’t want to do poli sci right now, so it’s good enough for me!</p>
<p>Gosh, this is SO MUCH better than I expected!</p>
<p>Congratulations Ema! I’ve been following this thread in anticipation of my daughter’s job search. I’m glad you got the job.</p>
<p>Ema - Fantastic. Congratulations!</p>
<p>So very happy for you!! Good luck and I hope you enjoy your work!</p>
<p>That’s such great news, Ema! Your tenacity and hard work have really paid off!</p>
<p>Time for party hats!</p>
<p>Congrats - wonderful to see it happen in real time.</p>
<p>It’s great to see a positive attitude, never giving up and working through the process turn out in success.</p>
<p>Congrats–so glad you got a job you’re excited about, in a field you’re interested in! It has been inspiring reading about your progress, & am hoping to have great things to report about D at some point after she graduates in May–who knows?</p>