Posted on 02/19/2020 3:03:56 PM PST by karpov
Exactly. Massively clamp down on H1b’s. There will suddenly be a lot more white collar jobs open to Americans. Companies will even start to bring back some job training.
That’s actually a good statistic, because 70% to 80% of the overpriced, PC-BS “degrees” awarded by our universities are useless and not worth the paper that they are written on.
My daughter with a BS in statistics and almost a 4.0 is not even getting interviews. She doesn’t want to go to grad school.
My son with a BS in Economics is working at Whole Foods. He got interviews early on and a few offers for jobs in San Francisco, but he couldn’t afford to live in San Francisco.
I don’t think that’s it. I think it’s hard to get a job if you have no connection to it. There aren’t as many companies going to campuses to hire. There aren’t as many job fairs.
It’s depressing.
Mostly its because of this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
the company is trying to minimize its risk.
Since leaving Nam in 67, I have always worked in jobs requiring a degree. But I have no degree. What is the number of us?
The requirement for a degree, and most other job requirements are optional, despite what they say. A long list of requirements is given so the employer can reject the applicant for reasons that cannot be stated publicly.
Being fat and ugly, body odor, ... or the reverse, being a distraction by being too pretty. The pretty always find another place where that is valued. But the ugly don’t.
A true capitalist would recognize that he would have a competive edge if he hired great workers that are rejected for irrelevant reasons.
how many of this country’s college graduates have a interdisciplinary studies degree? A lot and many of them have them because they flunked out of a standard degree program.
I hear you, I was underemployed for over 5 years after I graduated college. College is simply not worth the money and our economy simply doesn’t have jobs that actually give graduates the jobs that they’re supposedly being trained for.
It’s simply becoming harder and harder to live a Middle Class lifestyle. I know people whose parents were lawyers or doctors and lived in big two story houses that went to the right schools and they’ve been renting tiny apartments their entire adulthood and don’t ever expect to own a home.
If this trend doesn’t reverse, we could see bloodshed in the streets like the French Revolution on steroids.
I’m sure it’s different. But back in the day there was no internet either. Paper mail and phone calls.
I got a job within one month out of college in my field. Lots of rejections but I got it done.
Your kids need to apply for civil service jobs, they are very well paying jobs great benefits and job postings all the time for them to move up increasing their pay and grade much easier than the private sector!!! I also believe they can get part of furthering their education paid for!! Tell both of your kids to start applying for either state government jobs OR federal government jobs!! If I had it to do over again that is the route I would have taken great retirement benefits!!
With affirmative grading, a degree is increasingly worthless as an indicator of basic literacy.
Your kids may also have to work an an intern for a time to get the experience with EVERYONE having a degree these days it is just like a high school diploma used to be nothing special!!!
Some cashiering jobs require a degree now.
Unbelievable.
The Degree Required is a little different when viewed from the perspective of employer and recruiter.
I have a dear friend who had a successful career doing pin point placements of people with skills in companies not just shoveling resumes
In the Job Placement world College/University is known Colloquially as “The New High School”
In other words, the value of a High School Diploma is worth in general nothing as they recognize it is primarily indoctrination versus Education. The hope is by going through 4 more years you may actually add value.
Having said that far too many expect to be trained in a discipline they never took or were exposed to in College and the companies are unwilling to fill the gap except for the most promising
I don’t blame the kids for this.
They’ve been told since the cradle that if they go to college, they WILL make big money and live the American dream. Their parents told them this. Their teachers told them this. And the media tells them this.
That’s the problem. They didn’t do internships in college, and internships are only for those still in college.
It could be they are looking for people who have demonstrated a willingness to work. Maybe they want to distinguish future employees from underachievers.
My college had lots of job fairs and companies always on campus. Of course, I was computer science.
About 41% of college grads never belonged in college in the first place, so I guess it equals out.
I’m sure the demand for “Wymins Studies” majors is way down.
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