Bottom line is MOST jobs are not offered through on campus recruiting. If you are relying solely on that, you’re missing out on a lot of opportunities.
Good point.
What I found with my kids (both May or June graduates) was that on-campus recruiting and ordinary job hunting took place on different time schedules. The kid who found her first job through on-campus recruiting interviewed for it in the fall; the one who found his first job through a listing on a job board interviewed in June, only a few weeks before the job started.
But for a December graduate, there might be more overlap between the two processes.
I hope some parents of midyear graduates will come on this thread and tell us how their kids found their first post-college jobs.
If you are a math major and just need a job, consider getting a teaching license or substitute teaching. Also work on your programming/coding skills.
Please don’t go into teaching unless you really WANT to teach. Don’t do it because you “just need a job”.
I sent you a PM - my daughter graduated with a BS in math last spring. There are jobs!
Agree with the assessment that on-campus recruiting is not everything and has a strange cycle - the “top” companies recruit for their development/management programs in the fall for spring graduates. These are typically the 6-24 month programs where you rotate working in different areas and are trained during that time. There are companies that also recruit this early for a set number of new grads that they employ every year (again these are the most competitive jobs.)
Then there are companies that do on-campus recruiting closer to the graduation date (in the spring for those spring grads) for their more immediate needs (which vary from year to year.) Keep in mind that on-campus recruiting is not all that your career center does. They may have lists of jobs (all kinds not just for recent grads but for alums), relationships with companies and their recruiters, help in doing the job search (techniques for using linkedin), etc.
My daughter, who graduated last May started her search in January. She used all sorts of job listings - monster, indeed, linkedin, company websites, campus job database. She had a great job that she interviewed for in February but they couldn’t wait for somebody to start 3 months later. Things really heated up much closer to her actual graduation date (around April) when the companies were looking for very specific jobs to be filled “now”.
Graduating at an off time can work both ways - fewer of those program type jobs but also fewer applicants to compete with for those jobs companies need filled more immediately.
Another note - math majors are in demand -many companies (not just financial companies) need people to work on numbers - look for jobs for “analysts” that talk about quantitative skills.
I didn’t have a job in May 1982, and went home to live. Found one on Jan, waited for a friend to graduate on May 1983, then got an apartment with her in June. The longest 13 months of my life. It is normal.
To add to the excellent post by @kiddie - neither of my kids got their job coming out of undergrad from on-campus recruiting or interviews. My daughter felt that the services offered by her college career office were wonderful – she took full advantage and attended every workshop they offered, followed all advise, participated in their mentoring program – but she applied for a job that was probably listed at idealist.com. (Good for listings with nonprofit agencies).
So definitely there is a much wider job market if you go outside of campus listings and campus recruiting.
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