Posted on 05/01/2013 6:42:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
NEW YORK - More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more training to get on a career track, a poll released Tuesday showed.
The online survey of 1,050 workers who finished school in the past two years and 1,010 who will receive their degree in 2013 also found that many graduates, some heavily in debt because of the cost of their education, say they are in jobs that do not require a college degree.
Thirty-four percent said they had student loans of $30,000 or less, while 17 percent owed between $30,000 to $50,000.
"For our nation's youngest workers, as well as for the workforce at large, there is a real need for employers to reexamine how they hire, train and develop their employees," said Katherine Lavelle, of the global management consulting firm Accenture, which conducted the survey.
Nearly half, 42 percent, of recent graduates expect they will need an advanced degree to further their career and almost a quarter are already planning to take graduate courses.
More than half of graduates said it was difficult finding a job, but 39 percent were employed by the time they left college. Sixty eight percent said they are working full time, while 16 percent are in part-time positions.
The top industries that graduates wanted to work in were education, media and entertainment and healthcare.
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Anyone who can string 3 or 4 lines of code together can get a job.
Bring back US jobs now.
Stop exporting US jobs. Bring back US jobs.
Thank you.
OMG! What's this doing to their precious self-esteem that's been coddled their ENTIRE lives?
In sure the sequester is to blame.
It is time for the GOP to foursquare, support hiring Americans.
This “ship the jobs to China” thing has gotten far, far, far out of hand.
RE: In sure the sequester is to blame.
How does one blame the sequester when this underemployment problem has been in existence for 4 years? (Yes, even during the “stimulus” years ).
RE: It is time for the GOP to foursquare, support hiring Americans.
Everybody is for hiring Americans. The question is this-— how do you get those overseas jobs back?
In other words, how are Americans going to compete in terms of salaries?
Amen.
Amazing that all that partying, all those feminist study courses and all that leftwing indoctrination failed to produce good and wanted and desired workers. Or not so amazing.
We need to do something about our tax rates on imports.
I’ll not say what, but the fact that imports are treated the same as domestic goods, is catastrophic to American jobs.
STOP QUOTING THOSE EVIL CENSUS FIGURES!!!!!
You know that Freepers won’t give the #&*%^#$( Census workers any information, so not allowed to quote the statistics.
It’s none of their damn business! /s
I guess that Tibetan prose and poetry degree didn’t work out so well.
Really? From the grade of 2 I heard ‘GO INTO COMPUTERS!!!’
Yeah, now that is a dumper of a job for those in America.
Yes, bring back all those exported jobs that feminist studies grads were looking to fill. Lol
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