It’s a bad job market out there, and that shows not in the dearth of applicants, but in the surplus of applicants. No matter what the job, there’s somebody overly-qualified looking to fill it, and that’s going to get worse before it gets better. With every graduating college class, the job market gets tougher and tougher for folks who only have a bachelors degree; how do you stand out when everyone is a college graduate? You don’t. Recent college grads in the UK have been told to consider a McJob after graduation thanks to a record number 70 applicants for every open position.
“They need both short-term and long-term career goals because you’re graduating in a very tough climate. It doesn’t mean you should be put off applying for the profession of your choice,” said Carl Gilleard of the Association of Graduate Recruiters. “Any employment is better than no employment [even] if it’s about flipping burgers or stacking shelves rather than being sat at home feeling sorry for yourself and vegetating. There are lots of other skills required and valued, like people skills: you could be on a counter in a store. It’s all about building up your skills base. The big fear is that some people just drop off the bottom of the scale – because confidence goes very rapidly.”
As I’ve been thinking for years, when I have kids and they get of college age, I’m going to have them learn a trade before they ever consider going off to college, especially if they’re going to go for something useless like English or other art and humanities courses. College degrees are worthless now.
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