<p>Does this mean we’ll have to close this thread…now that OP’s son has a job?</p>
<p>^I don’t know about you, but I am not going to want to stop reading this thread until it’s BCEagle’s son’s turn!</p>
<p>I heard today that I start work on August 3 and will be working from 8:30 to 5 from then on out. So I guess that’s that!</p>
<p>I forgot that Hpuck was the OP!! HA!!</p>
<p>Gosh, Ema - just a week away… Have fun!</p>
<p>OK, HPuck35, that makes sense then; only engineers & similar seem to be getting salary offers like your S’s. Congrats.</p>
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<p>Son is actually enjoying what he is doing right now. I think that it’s too late for getting a job in September and he would be leaving his team in the lurch so he may just continue doing it for a semester. He should start ramping up the job search for January though.</p>
<p>[What’s</a> Wrong With America’s Job Engine? - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904772304576468820582615858.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories]What’s”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904772304576468820582615858.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories)</p>
<p>Over the past 10 years:</p>
<p>• The U.S. economy’s output of goods and services has expanded 19%.</p>
<p>• Nonfinancial corporate profits have risen 85%.</p>
<p>• The labor force has grown by 10.1 million.</p>
<p>• But the number of private-sector jobs has fallen by nearly two million.</p>
<p>• And the percentage of American adults at work has dropped to 58.2%, a low not seen since 1983.</p>
<p>Emaheevul…Congratulations!!! I am so happy for you!</p>
<p>Glad to hear you got the job, Emaheevul. Glad to hear you got the much needed health benefits, too. Congrats.</p>
<p>Congratulations HPuck and Ema and for getting vacation /health care (etc) benefits!
Son graduated in 2010, currently only working P/T doing data entry, but at least in his field of interest. (He’s got Asperger’s.) Since he has a terrible time with interviews, I found something that could help, a mock interview session. That’s today.
I vote no. We need all the encouragement we can get.</p>
<p>Threads close when there is no interest & no further postings, so as long as there is interest, why close?</p>
<p>That was one thing that was really great about interviewing with the company that eventually hired me. I had 5 visits and about 15 interviews total, so I got a TON of practice-- and after a half hour or so of standard interviewing they got more casual and were just chatting with me and ALSO giving me tips for my next interviews, I guess they liked me and wanted me to do well. My one autism symptom that people do notice is that my facial expressions change a bit less than a normal persons-- my “I’m Listening To You” face looks sort of blank and bored. They interpreted that as me being a very focused person and were giving me tips on how to be who I am but inject a bit more enthusiasm so it doesn’t come across as boredom. They didn’t know that they were looking at autism but they were very helpful in giving me strategies to mask it a little better. :P</p>
<p>Mock interviews are a very good idea. You don’t want to learn “on the job” as your first interview may be the best chance at the job you want. Who knows.</p>
<p>My son can be very shy and then won’t speak up. He will be so quiet that I have a hard time hearing him. So I did a few mock interviews with him (I interviewed/hired quite a few engineers as a manager before I retired). I believe it helped a lot. I could tell him what he did right as well as areas to improve. He also would bring a hard copy of couple of term project reports and the software coding that he did last summer with him. Gave him some material to talk to that he was comfortable discussing. Seemed to put him more at ease.</p>
<p>Seems to be a fair number of jobs out there, at least in the engineering world in SoCal for new grads. Varies some by field. About 80% of my son’s classmates had jobs lined up prior to graduation (which was one reason I was panicing a little). </p>
<p>PS: Keep the thread going. I may not be always posting but there are many interesting stories going on here as well as some good advice on job hunting.</p>
<p>First time unemployment claims were under 400K last week (this morning’s report). Definitely a glimmer of hope.</p>
<p>I heard an interesting claim this morning on the radio. The discussion was about tech jobs where companies are saying that there are 3-5 jobs open for every tech worker looking. A caller said that his tech company posts job requirements with 5 to 6 required skills (which nobody will have because you can’t work on all of those things in a relatively short timeframe) so that they can justify hiring immigrants or moving jobs offshore.</p>
<p>It’s been interesting reading this thread. Congrats to Ema and Hpuck’s son. Ema: that’s lots of interviews for a job. </p>
<p>My son started working earlier this month after graduation in May. He was hired after his summer internship last year conditioned on graduating. There were 12 interns and 9 were given offer. His GF was also was hired after her internship at another company where all the summer interns were hired. Searching for job near or after graduation is a little late and difficulty as many of those positions already have been filled a year earlier. It really needs to start early in junior, seeking internship specially those companies known to hired their summer interns. </p>
<p>S said they have another 13 interns this summer. (For those interested, its Verizon Business. The interns are either IT or system engineers)</p>
<p>Glimmer of hope? That’s very optimistic,lol…what about the revision of the prior week’s number from 418k to 422k ???..I’ ll bet this number is revised to above 400k</p>
<p>Some of the recent numbers are from specific government layoffs (MN in particular) and those will hopefully be reversed soon. I think that we’ll see FAA impacts in next week’s numbers. HSBC announced 10K layoffs and another large bank announced 2K. I think that Delta also announced 2K layoffs.</p>
<p>~400K is quite a bit better than ~430K. We just need a trend of a few months for those numbers.</p>
<p>Here us a link to job layoffs,business closings ,etc</p>
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<p>Congratulations to the newly employed!!</p>
<p>The job market seems to be getting better. I know one 59 yr old who was laid off last month and found a job as well as 3 more interviews. He decided to forgo the 3 interviews because they are not local.</p>
<p>The economy is getting worse - the econ numbers this morning were dreadful.</p>
<p>I’m considering a high school teaching job as an alternative. What is the best way to find out if there are job openings at certain high schools? I would have to email them individually and ask?</p>