<p>Congrats Emaheevul!</p>
<p>Oh, ema, that is so great! I have been feeling for you throughout this whole thread. How brave you’ve been, going through all those interviews! </p>
<p>So proud of you sticking through it and seeing that it paid off!</p>
<p>Will be keeping you in my prayers as you embark on your new adventure!</p>
<p>Son got a job offer today!!!</p>
<p>Good salary offer, just over 60K; with the company that he liked the best of all that he had inplant interviews with. His unpaid summer project experience last summer working for a professor at school really did pay off. He enjoyed the work and was looking at doing it “for real”. Was just the experience this company was looking for. He’s excited and is about to accept. Just wants to look over the details on the offer sheet.</p>
<p>I, also, couldn’t be more excited and proud of him. </p>
<p>I hope everyone else’s job hunting works out as well.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for all the congratulations! I was afraid I was boring you, this was a LONG interview process-- 5 visits to the company, 15 interviews total, and an essay. Gosh, my entire extended family has called in the last few hours. I’ve talked myself hoarse! I’m so very pleased. I had estimated that I needed to make about 27k a year in order to take a small apartment near my parents place, and now I’ll have more than enough-- I was expecting to have to work a few years and work my way up to 27k with the way this market is for social science grads. So once I get a healthy emergency fund saved up and once I’ve got some money set aside for it, I’ll be able to move out of my parents house! 
I won’t be living the high life on that salary but I’ll be able to afford my loan payments and support myself in a safe neighborhood, and that’s all I need at this stage of my career. I’ll be very comfortable with that for a while. And the guy on the phone told me there are annual pay increases and the company pays for continuing education, so I’m in a great position!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, just as I got the call my boyfriend was opening the mail and seeing that he is only an alternate for the internship program he needed to get his clinical lab certification. So naturally he’s devastated and I am holding off on any major celebration until tomorrow. Such rotten luck that the letter had to come today. I’m not letting it damper my mood or my sense of accomplishment, but I do feel so terrible for those who are still looking and those who have got bad news. :(</p>
<p>Wow, HPuck35! That’s an impressive salary! What is your child’s major? Great news indeed!</p>
<p>My son got his BS in mechanical engineering with a special emphsis in robotics. His summer work was along those lines.</p>
<p>ema - great news! Sorry to hear about BF. You must celebrate your achievement though! You deserve it!!
Hpuck - great news for your S as well!!</p>
<p>Ema, so happy to hear your good news, especially after they put you through the wringer for it!</p>
<p>HPuck, glad to hear you have good news too!</p>
<p>HPuck35, Ema - great news! Maybe things are picking up and we can hope for the best for those still looking.</p>
<p>HPuck, I am so thrilled! As the mom of a mech eng major who may not land any paid internships before graduation, I am now feeling hopeful. I still would like to see him get an internship, but his nickname is Mr. Inertia. He’s a great student, but not very ambitious. He considers his job to be getting good grades, and while we’re so very proud of him, we know that doesn’t necessarily get you a job or into grad school.</p>
<p>We are so proud of all you kids that have worked so hard and gotten your degrees and are now going forward into the working world. </p>
<p>Congratulations, and keep us posted on how you’re doing!</p>
<p>I just got the benefits pamphlet and my benefits are way better than my parents, which is sort of a weird feeling. My salary is higher than my mom’s, too. Sort of makes this “adult” thing feel real. My parents are having a drink in Florida tonight to celebrate my victory. 
Sad they’re not here.</p>
<p>I’ve been waiting such a long time to have decent health coverage-- that’s something I’ve posted about a lot. It is a little expensive but my quality of life is going to skyrocket. I get new glasses lenses every year! And I should be able to get my ADD medicine, which I haven’t had in forever, and I’ll be able to go to the asthma specialist to get my inhalers! :)</p>
<p>^^^That’s awesome, ema! You sound like you have your priorities straight. Good for you! Make sure to treat yourself to a nice trip with those vacation days. My daddy used to always tell me, You need to travel while you’re young, before you have kids. Now that I’m almost 50, I wish I’d listened to him!</p>
<p>Make sure to give your folks a big hug when they come back!</p>
<p>^^Congrats!! This is the new welcome to the adult world…one where health insurance is every bit as important as the annual wage. H has chronic lung disease and D is special needs–I know just how you feel. Hopefully something comes through for your BF soon.</p>
<p>HPuck35, Ema - Congrats such wonderful news</p>
<p>Is this the first inkling that the hiring in the US is FINALLY picking up for real?!</p>
<p>YAY for emaheevul and Hpuck!</p>
<p>Congrats to Ema and HPuck’s S! Good luck to to both as they embark on their careers. I hope they are everything you hoped for.</p>
<p>Congrats to HPuck’s son.</p>
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<p>I’ve been meaning to post a few articles. Hiring is still weak with first time claims staying above 400K for quite some time now. We won’t make any progress on getting the unemployment rate down until that number comes down below 400K - that’s nowhere near the needed robust hiring.</p>
<p>[?Just-in-time</a>? hiring behind pause: Manpower CEO - MarketWatch](<a href=“‘Just-in-time’ hiring behind pause: Manpower CEO - MarketWatch”>‘Just-in-time’ hiring behind pause: Manpower CEO - MarketWatch)</p>
<p>WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) The surprisingly weak labor market in the past two months is evidence that companies are quickly able to hit the hiring pause button if they dont like conditions on the ground, a leading expert on the job market said.</p>
<p>Before when companies wanted to slow hiring, there was a glide path that took time to implement. Now they have a bat-phone, said ManpowerGroup Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Joerres in an interview. </p>
<p>[Uncertainty</a> of debt crisis slowing local hiring, expansions - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/07/26/uncertainty_of_debt_crisis_slowing_local_hiring_expansions/]Uncertainty”>http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/07/26/uncertainty_of_debt_crisis_slowing_local_hiring_expansions/)</p>
<p>Bill Weissman said sales at his Fitchburg furniture-making company have been so strong this year that he considered buying new equipment and hiring new workers. But Weissman said he is worried sick that events in Washington will harm the stock market and an already fragile economy, so he is putting off expansion plans.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24masters-t.html?_r=1[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24masters-t.html?_r=1</a></p>
<p>William Kleins story may sound familiar to his fellow graduates. After earning his bachelors in history from the College at Brockport, he found himself living in his parents Buffalo home, working the same $7.25-an-hour waiter job he had in high school. </p>
<p>Several years ago it became very clear to us that masters education was moving very rapidly to become the entry degree in many professions, Dr. Stewart says. The sheen has come, in part, because the degrees are newly specific and utilitarian. These are not your general masters in policy or administration. Even the M.B.A., observed one business school dean, is kind of too broad in the current environment. Now, you have the M.S. in supply chain management, and in managing mission-driven organizations. Theres an M.S. in skeletal and dental bioarchaeology, and an M.A. in learning and thinking. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/business/help-wanted-ads-exclude-the-long-term-jobless.html?hp[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/business/help-wanted-ads-exclude-the-long-term-jobless.html?hp</a></p>
<p>A recent review of job vacancy postings on popular sites like Monster.com, CareerBuilder and Craigslist revealed hundreds that said employers would consider (or at least strongly prefer) only people currently employed or just recently laid off. </p>
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<p>Corporate earnings this quarter have been strong in certain sectors and weak in others. Tech is doing well; banking isn’t. The muddle-through hiring situation that I mentioned at the beginning of summer is playing out. I don’t expect any fiscal or monetary interventions until September at the earliest unless there’s a crisis resulting from the debt ceiling problem.</p>
<p>Congrats ema. I’ve been following your progress, especially since S is also a poli sci major. It’s encouraging to know that with perseverence you can find a job. Good for you!</p>
<p>I just read this link: [Posts</a> from the Mondays With Marlo Category - Marlo Thomas](<a href=“http://marlothomas.aol.com/category/mondays-with-marlo/]Posts”>http://marlothomas.aol.com/category/mondays-with-marlo/)
Where Suze Orman talks about landing a job after college. She brought up an idea that I thought others might appreciate on this forum. Instead of taking the “waitressing job”-which pays the rent—maybe—go to the job in your field of interest/college major-and offer to work for the same salary as a waitressing job-just to get your foot in the door. It looks better on the resume, and allows for real application of your skills/aptitude that you crafted in college.
My DD did something like this…she worked as an intern-no pay, often working long after the other interns left the office at 5pm, but alongside the staff who always was working late…and recently was offered a staff position in the hill in DC.
I am very happy for her, and will hold good thoughts for the other 2010/2011 grads!
~APOL-a Mum</p>