Good Jobs to look for?

:o that's a really competent degree but you're supposed to go to career fairs and recruiting events to have a job out of college

even though you already graduated you should be able to go back to career fairs as an alumni

gl basically all i can say. I have a Chemical engineering degree from carnegie mellon and can't get a real job >.<

damn move to another country where they respect degrees imo

On September 07 2011 21:35 palak wrote: gl basically all i can say. I have a Chemical engineering degree from carnegie mellon and can't get a real job >.<

Where do you live now? Obviously with a degree like that only a handful of states are going to have real career opportunities for you

1) Go to career fairs and talk to companies. Emphasize your previous work experiences. Some companies dont really care if you had any finance related internships. My friend worked as a bartender at a country club for a year and is now working for a big time insurance company as a data analyst (Statistics degree).

2) Use your networks to get a job ---> I have a research position on campus through a mutual friend and I am currently talking to my mentor about working at his company for a junior consultant position.

3) Forget online job applications such as monster.com and careerbuilder.com, everybody else is doing the same ---> It is a big waste of time IMO. Use your college job website but dont be too depended on it.

On September 07 2011 22:13 Zep wrote: damn move to another country where they respect degrees imo Show nested quote + On September 07 2011 21:35 palak wrote: gl basically all i can say. I have a Chemical engineering degree from carnegie mellon and can't get a real job >.< Where do you live now? Obviously with a degree like that only a handful of states are going to have real career opportunities for you

philly, but I check for jobs pretty much anywhere. I have the issue of having zero job experience since I played poker for a living through college. I also didn't go to class so there isn't a professor there who knows my face. So I am in the unique position of overqualified for a ton of jobs, and underqualified for another ton since they just care about experience more then just the degree. It's all a situation of my own making though, poor life choices just gonna have to wait it out til i can get a real job.
I can't network much either since all my friends are ece, cs majors since my cheme friends pretty much all did grad school.

On September 07 2011 22:23 hneaz wrote: 1) Go to career fairs and talk to companies. Emphasize your previous work experiences. Some companies dont really care if you had any finance related internships. My friend worked as a bartender at a country club for a year and is now working for a big time insurance company as a data analyst (Statistics degree). 2) Use your networks to get a job ---> I have a research position on campus through a mutual friend and I am currently talking to my mentor about working at his company for a junior consultant position. 3) Forget online job applications such as monster.com and careerbuilder.com, everybody else is doing the same ---> It is a big waste of time IMO. Use your college job website but dont be too depended on it.

Agree completely w/ this especially networking (has helped lots of my friends).

u (likeaset) have a degree+job experience so u should be able to get a job, just don't count on it happening soon...will take a while w/ the economy the way it is.

i have a finance degree from RMC. and i too can't get a job.

Networks are key. Chances are if your networking skills aren't good enough to get you a job, then you probably aren't competitive enough to get it through a website

yeah. i've heard similar from everyone i know that hires. many say they stopped looking at monster, etc. entirely a long time ago. not worth their time. if your resume is ahead of the curve it can't hurt but if not it seems like you are lookin to win the lotto.

i wonder what % of U.S. 23-28 year olds that are no longer students lives are kinda sucking atm? poker players used to have it pretty good but that's pretty much gone to hell now unless you were really bankin (and didn't have a ton of money on FTP). i am in a similar position to all you guys except i graduated 5.5 years ago. i would imagine for a lot of us it boils down to poor choices but sheesh science/technology degree from carnegie melon used to be a layup for a good job. all my recent law school/grad school grad friends are struggling. the only people that seem to be doing alright are the ones w/ the science/technology degrees/good experience and got in good somewhere back in 06-07 but i don't even think the sickos have really moved up at all and are frustrated w/ their job/life.

i'm kinda debating on whether to start taking steroids and being a chip n' dale dancer/stripper, making a run at military sicko, or FOBin it up in china washing dishes in a U.S. style restaurant. at least w/ the latter i'll be making chinese yen that might actually be worth something in 5-15 years.

After getting a bachelors degree, I tell people to go teach English abroad for a year to get your feet wet, but most importantly you get to travel and see the world as well as have a ton of fun and still get paid while doing it. You're given a preset curriculum before hand, so it's not as hard as you might think it is.

On September 08 2011 03:09 PuertoRican wrote: After getting a bachelors degree, I tell people to go teach English abroad for a year to get your feet wet, but most importantly you get to travel and see the world as well as have a ton of fun and still get paid while doing it. You're given a preset curriculum before hand, so it's not as hard as you might think it is.

this is a great idea, especially now where america is in a total economic mess which is gonna keep getting worse. I might actually do that after I graduate just cause it will be so fun to travel. Go to southeast asia, it's fucking fantastic.

I've been reading articles about how the population of unemployed recent college grads has been rising dramatically since the recession. Our age group is getting really fucked by all the bullshit these baby boomers are doing. I'm thinking revolution. hehe. Anyway, it's interesting to hear other peoples stories which match the stats I heard. I've noticed the same thing, but not as painfully bad here in Denver cause our state is one that was least hit by the recession. Plus we got things like tax revenue from medical MMJ which has saved some programs. We still got a lot of shit to fix here but we're a bit saner than many other states so people live a higher quality of life in general. It's been crazy watching stores shut down though, I'd never seen anything like it in my life. When the recession hit suddenly about 8 shops in the major community market shut down within a week of each other. It was wild. Now there's just empty places everywhere and occasional new businesses, many of which fail and get replaced again. The ones run by foreigners seem to often hang on longer - the Nepali's in our neighborhood have kept their shops running through it all. And places with really strong community ties, like restaurants and biker bars.

Anyway, as for advice to the OP, networking is the only hope in this economy. The stats are against all of us right now. In the past networking was key for success, but you had some social systems helping you out. Now that's falling or fallen apart, so networking is your best hope.

If you cant find a job start your own business