Young, Educated, and Jobless
College is a place of learning, growing and for many, worrying. As more and more college graduates are entering the job market, many are discovering that finding jobs in their respective field are hard to come by. If you ask why young people with a college degree are more prone to unemployment, you get various answers. Some think younger people are applying for jobs the wrong way. Others think the job market is rigged against them entirely. Whatever the case may be, finding a job after college boils down to more than a degree; in today’s job market just a degree is rarely enough to find a job within a graduate’s respective field.
When Michael Price, author of What Next? The Millennial’s Guide, tackled the question…show more content… Selingo, the author of There is Life After College, requirements go beyond a diploma. Employers are not only looking to see if applicants have the necessary “soft skills” but also if they possess the essential technical skills. Soft skills refer to abilities to problem solve, apply critical thinking, communicate efficiently, and collaborate well on teams (Selingo, 2016). These skills, to some degree, are generally exercised in college classrooms, but most colleges lack in teaching students how to operate more advanced technology. Many jobs now require employees to have a certificate to prove that they are certificated in working with advanced softwares. These requirements are no longer trivial as students generally have to spend more money outside of college to get additional training to operate machines in their field of profession. Undergraduates should take the opportunities to improve their technical skills by joining clubs and activities that use high ended equipments or find internship that will be willing to teach necessary skills in their profession. Most colleges offer a wide selections of clubs that do teach these extra technical skills that company employers seek out. Not only does Drexel offer clubs and recreations, but also big opportunities when it comes to choosing co-ops. Most of those companies accepting Drexel students, will teach them how to use equipment that the average human will not be able to safely operate in their lifetime.…show more content… To put simply, sprinters make up about 35% of college students and these are the people who jump right into their career after college, or know what they need to do before going for the desired profession, such as taking another form of higher level education that specializes in one particular field. Wanderers consists of 32% of the young adults in college and have trouble deciding how they should go about finding the best suitable job that they can work at without hating to get up every day for that job. The remaining 33% are stragglers, and as the name suggests, these students have little to no idea of what they want to do in the future, thus, their efforts are wasted in studying for for a degree they are undecided on. From this, we know college students are more or less evenly distributed between the three categories, but the key point to take away from this is how sprinters spend their undergraduate years: 80% had at least one internship, 64% were sure of their major when they began, and 43% had less than $10,000 in student loan debt (Selingo, 2016). Sprinters always look ahead when planning their classes and always look for opportunities to get ahead. It is true that the survey did not take into account family wealth, so some of these student could arguably have other advantages. That does not matter
