Boomerang kids: 85% of college grads move home

<p>Buba, my daughter was attending school in New York, so she used local resources, including listings at her college – and she used various online resources. Even Craiglist, though that’s better for part-time work & odd jobs than full time employment. I know that the listing for the job she got came up through idealist.org. It is very easy to set up a search with specific criteria with idealist.org, and then subscribe to a daily email or RSS feed based on those criteria. No charge.</p>

<p>If you are graduating in the spring, then you would be unlikely to get very far with most applications, as the listings you see now would be for openings in a few months. On-campus recruiters might show up in October to hire for June, but real-world employers usually are listing positions to be filled 60-90 days out. So at this point in time it would be more important to be networking, building up interviewing skills, honing up the resume, etc. My d’s college career center offered a series of workshops focusing on job-hunting skills and she took full advantage of those offerings; they also hooked her up with a real-world mentor who held a high position with a government agency that would fit her idea of a “dream job”. The mentor was a great help – and my d. did in fact apply for an overseas job with that agency – she did not get that job, but the agency called and offered her an unpaid internship in D.C., that sounded amazing. However, my d. turned it down because of the “unpaid” part.</p>