<p>Georgiatwins, has your daughter looked at higher education jobs? My first job was as an admissions counselor. Every college has them. There are lots of entry level positions at colleges.</p>
<p>They want someone who will take orders, not expect much, doesn’t steal, doesn’t join a union, and doesn’t complain.</p>
<p>Everything else is gravy.</p>
<p>So they go to college where they are supposed to learn to question everything (critical thinking), expect to be treated with kid gloves, learn to cheat effectively, organize - whether in hippy politics or their fraternities - and complain constantly.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with this picture?</p>
<p>MD Mom-Thanks for the question. Yes, she has applied for that exact job at every school in the greater Atlanta area with no luck. She is living at home until she has a job that will allow her to live either on her own/share apartment. She keeps being told that the colleges/universities like to hire their own grads…Hopefully once she applies to Georgia Tech to grad school that may help her to break through that barrier. She just finished reading the article and links and has some additional ideas. I admire her perseverance. What is so bizarre to me is one of her friends was hired by the Richmond Fed for a 3 year training program across all branches of IT-this person has no experience in this area-a very non-specific BA in Business with a minor in music. Great job, govt benefits, tons of vacation, rotating everh 3 months to learn something new-all things any of our kids could learn…</p>
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<p>Actuarial math majors (a major where I go and is fairly common in major universities) often get jobs as actuaries. Though I suppose you could say that it’s really a pre-professional major akin to engineering. </p>
<p>I think students generally know what kind of jobs their major applies to if they ever talk to anyone. </p>
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<p>It’s been my observation too (based on talking to lots of different people) that most companies really don’t need, nor can effectively use, intelligent and educated entry level hires. Some realize this and simply lie (“We are the smartest. We only want the smartest” is a common line) and some actually think they need smart people and simply settle. No company really wants to say that they only really need to weed out grossly incompetent applicants, they want to be selective. </p>
<p>I agree that, from as far as I can tell, what you described is what they want. But employers don’t seem to want to let that secret out.</p>