(졸업) 대졸 취업자들의 애환
(졸업) 대졸 취업자들의 애환
Finally tonight, there’s relatively good news for the more than 1.5 million members of the college class of 2010. More than 24% of those who applied for jobs got one. It was less than 20% for the class of 2009. We introduced you to four of them last year. Tonight a class reunion to see how these children of the recession are doing one year later.
They were the class of 2009. College degrees in hand, but doubt and debt weighing heavily on their minds. As they close the book on their first year out of school, we invited Allen, Jessica, Pooja and Eric to join us again and update us on their progress. “In general, do you feel like the environment is a little more positive when it comes to looking for jobs?” “I don’t think it’s really changed since last year that much. Among my friends, none of them have really fulfilled what they wanted to do after graduating.”
Pooja spent months looking for a job after graduation. She settled for an unpaid internship in the fall and is now going to law school. “Do you find a lot of kids are going to graduate school because they just don’t have any other alternative?” “I do. Yeah. It’s funny ‘cause I think that college now……..having a college degree is so common. I think, I think it’s…..it’s like what high school degrees used to be.”
A college degree doesn’t prove your chances in the job market. Among workers under 25 with the degree, unemployment was about 8% in May below the national average. But that’s still double the unemployment rate for young grads in 2007. “You have been looking for a job in marketing since you graduated?” “Yeah.” “Tell me how that’s been going for the last year?” “It’s been rough. I’m not going to lie. But……a lot of applying and not hearing back.” To make ends meet수입과 지출을 맏추다 and pay down her $2000 debt from school loans, Jessica continues to work at Best Buy and may apply to graduate school in the fall.
It’s a message of the so called Me Generation 자기 중심주의 세대 needs to hear. “Nobody prepared them for what the real world challenges were going to be. They sort of promise them that if you studied hard, if you got straight As, you can have the world at your feet. And that’s not the truth.”
Allen wants to be a dentist. And it turns out his boss is affiliated with Harvard’s dental school.
With a year’s worth of real world education, our 2009 grads offered some advice to the class of 2010. “You would basically have to defend for yourself in that world.” “If I could go back and do it again, I would play so much higher priority on gaining experience.” “Staying focused into what you want to do and really looking for exactly what you want.” Their college days behind them, but the learning continues.