Since it was so long ago, I was obviously naive to some important things regarding the work force and trying to finding a job, but it doesn't make it any less scary that this has been happening for so long, especially when dealing with such a nerve-racking experience.
When will this end? Someone please help us!
Amidst a crowed stadium full of caps, gowns, and tassels, one thing is missing among the sea of college graduates: a smile. In light of recent economic events, grads are deciding that their commencement isn't much of a milestone to celebrate. The paradigm has shifted once again to reveal a very different kind of emotion at these graduation ceremonies. It seems that graduating seniors are more discouraged when it comes time to turn their tassels then joyful--a feeling of dread and hesitation to walk across the stage into a very real economic crisis.
The current events surrounding our nation in the last several months have made finding a job nearly impossible for any scholar looking for work after they have received their degrees. I'm sure many people can relate to several personal anecdotes of students running into higher education and the military just to avoid the problematic workforce. Students, with good reason, feel it's necessary to run into more debt or signing the next six years of their lives away to the military.
Those that are determined to find a job in this failing economic status are faced with the cliche rejection: "We're looking for more experience." Let me ask this: For those willing to work for little to nothing as long as it more-or-less pertains to their field of study, why aren't companies willing to create that experience than keep their minds closed to having it? Where is this experience supposed to come from? Why must students be judged solely by their electronic applications and rejected before any personal conversation? Answer: older citizens within the communities that have been laid off of their higher end jobs and are now willing to work the lower end jobs the college graduates should be filling. They have the experience that looks better on a shiny computer screen or crisp sheet of paper. Just goes to show how misdirected this economy has gotten in the last year and a half.
Where are these students supposed to go? What is this teaching the generations, and new college classes, to come? Where will these students end up when they have yet to receive experience when the economy begins to get better? Maybe. . .they are all just out of luck. Tell me, where is the change?
Has anyone noticed what this recent economy has been doing to the struggling college graduates of the 2009 class?
Amidst a crowed stadium full of caps, gowns, and tassels, one thing is missing among the sea of college graduates: a smile. In light of recent economic events, grads are deciding that their commencement isn't much of a milestone to celebrate. The paradigm has shifted once again to reveal a very different kind of emotion at these graduation ceremonies. It seems that graduating seniors are more discouraged when it comes time to turn their tassels then joyful--a feeling of dread and hesitation to walk across the stage into a very real economic crisis.
The current events surrounding our nation in the last several months have made finding a job nearly impossible for any scholar looking for work after they have received their degrees. I'm sure many people can relate to several personal anecdotes of students running into higher education and the military just to avoid the problematic workforce. Students, with good reason, feel it's necessary to run into more debt or signing the next six years of their lives away to the military.
Those that are determined to find a job in this failing economic status are faced with the cliche rejection: "We're looking for more experience." Let me ask this: For those willing to work for little to nothing as long as it more-or-less pertains to their field of study, why aren't companies willing to create that experience than keep their minds closed to having it? Where is this experience supposed to come from? Why must students be judged solely by their electronic applications and rejected before any personal conversation? Answer: older citizens within the communities that have been laid off of their higher end jobs and are now willing to work the lower end jobs the college graduates should be filling. They have the experience that looks better on a shiny computer screen or crisp sheet of paper. Just goes to show how misdirected this economy has gotten in the last year and a half.
Where are these students supposed to go? What is this teaching the generations, and new college classes, to come? Where will these students end up when they have yet to receive experience when the economy begins to get better? Maybe. . .they are all just out of luck. Tell me, where is the change?
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