<p>Our D ('09) is ecstatic, as are we, that she not only got a full-time job, but it’s in the field she wants to pursue (at least at present!) and it’s her dream job in transportation! It took almost two solid months of doing informational interviews and networking, but all that hard work has paid off. Until she starts at the end of August, she’s continuing to work part-time for a consulting firm in the same field, again a job she got through networking.</p>
<p>We are so relieved that, despite the economy, she got two job offers (the part-time and the full-time ones) within days of each other. Her college friends are also starting to land jobs as well. Whew!</p>
<p>Thanks so much! D thought it was ironic that she was offered a full-time job after being turned down for unpaid internships! One mother of a recent grad told me that this was only the third '09 grad she knew who had gotten a job.</p>
<p>To those of you with rising seniors as well as recent grads, do encourage them to network, network, network! And have them pursue their dreams. D majored in Latin American studies but did extensive research and her senior thesis on mass transportation in Santiago, Chile. This led to her interest in transportation, and I think that was conveyed when she did info interviews.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your D! This is what we want…our kids to be able to support themselves after graduation and to find work in their chosen field of study or career area! Hooray for when it happens and when it happens soon after graduation!</p>
<p>I also have a child who graduated in May and am happy to say that she is also supporting herself and is working in her field from the time she graduated. She is in theater. That is also a difficult field to get work in. Unlike others, jobs are not long term and so one has to constantly be job hunting while they have a job in fact. My D has a job in her field all summer and another one for all fall through to the holidays and her career will be like this and so next up will be what she gets next winter.</p>
<p>Little Mother, many congrats to your D. It sounds like she worked hard in pursuit of employment. It’s so nice she got something in her area of interest.</p>
<p>Our neighbor’s S graduated in May and is still unemployed. He has moved back home.<br>
They thought his major (meteorology) would help him find a job quickly but apparantly no luck so far.</p>
<p>One of S’s other friends got a job as a beer salesman. Of course all the guys say that’s a dream job:)</p>
<p>S1 graduated in May and went to work the next week. He’s an Ensign in the U. S. Navy.
It is nice to know they will be able to take care of themselves.</p>
<p>Congratulations, Little Mother! That’s fantastic. Fingers crossed here that my D (also an '09 college grad) will soon have similar good news to report. D got an engineering degree from a top engineering school and has been unable to find a full-time job. She did find a temp job in her field through networking, but it ended recently. </p>
<p>The good news is that D has been interviewed three times recently for her dream job. She should find out in the next week or so if she got the job. If she doesn’t get the job, she has another good opportunity–also through networking–that will likely land her full-time employment. It’s just not her dream job.</p>
<p>D is shocked that some of the top kids in her engineering major can’t find jobs. She’s no slouch, but she wondered recently how she could possibly find a job when the real standouts can’t find one?</p>
<p>Ran across the following article this AM. It’s really disheartening to know that fewer than a fifth of '09 graduates got job offers:</p>