[SeekAndFind]

[SeekAndFind]

[Puppage]

Poll: Nearly half of US college grads are underemployed

OMG! What's this doing to their precious self-esteem that's been coddled their ENTIRE lives?

[ConservativeStatement]

What about “undocumented Democrats”?

[GeronL]

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.

[SkyDancer]

I guess that Tibetan prose and poetry degree didn’t work out so well.

[Average Al]

"More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more training to get on a career track"

Or, they went to college and they can out with the same job skills they went in with so they aren't underemployed.

[Oatka]

The top industries that graduates wanted to work in were education, media and entertainment and healthcare.

What a sad commentary.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Most of these recent graduates aren’t “underemployed”. Instead, they are seeing that a college degree is now worth little, and comes with a mountain of debt. The college degree has been devalued by: (1) the idea that everyone must go to college regardless of whether the student is college material; (2) worthless majors like sociology, Women’s studies, and African-American studies; and (3) the fact that most students are coming out of college with minimal skills because college is now more about indoctrinating than educating.

I don’t fault the students for this. Most don’t have the maturity at that age to realize that they have been hoodwinked for hundreds of thousands of dollars for an increasingly worthless degree.

[5thGenTexan]

What is the expected wage for a BA in Gender Studies? It could be that $10k / year is the market rate (defined as what that skillset is worth to an employer), therefore they are not under employed.

[0.E.O]

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.

Define 'underemployed'. If a person graduates with an art history degree and is working in a Starbucks then are they underemployed? Or do the metrics take into account that the degree was basically worthless to begin with and that any job is a step up?

[Iron Munro]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Maybe there would be an opportunity in opening an “adult post-graduate high school”, that would teach intensive courses in what they should have been taught in high school.

With a sales pitch of “Go back to high school, but this time, for real.”

[Vaduz]

The top industries that graduates wanted to work in were education, media and entertainment and healthcare.

Maybe they should look for a real job that is productive.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

>>The top industries that graduates wanted to work in were education, media and entertainment and healthcare.<<

All well and good, but they apparently didn’t do their research on what the job market trends can support.

I need production/manufacturing engineers - mechanical, electrical, industrial. People that can program PLC’s and fabricate tools & fixtures. Actual, hard, skills.

Not a “media and entertainment” graduate. WTF kind of soft-headed mush is that?

[glorgau]

Poll: Nearly half of US college grads are underemployed

Also, fully half of ALL college grads are below average for college grads overall.