Want to Earn More After College? Check These 3 Tips

A new study says the sooner a grad gets a post-college job, the more money they’ll earn later in life. The key is to plan out your job application processes a few months before you graduate to get a job faster.

https://www.collegeconfidential.com/articles/want-to-earn-more-after-college-check-these-3-tips/

This is the second link from here that doesn’t load in Firefox.

I wonder how much money the programmers of Firefox and of this forum’s software are making?
Or maybe it’s a hardware issue? :wink:

If true, then those who graduate into a recession are out of luck.

Graduating into a recession actually does have a lifelong impact on your earnings. To the point that grad school can make sense just for entering the work force at a different time.

It is fairly consistent that specific article pages under https://www.collegeconfidential.com/articles/ tend to be non-functional in Firefox and some other browsers (but do render readably in Chrome / Chromium based browsers).

Yes. See the following:

https://hbr.org/2018/09/people-who-graduate-during-recessions-earn-less-money-but-theyre-happier
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-great-recession-may-affect-this-lost-generation-for-years-to-come-2018-05-24
https://www.nber.org/digest/nov06/w12159.html
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/05/23/economy/divided-decade/wages-college-graduates
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bad-news-for-the-class-of-2008/
https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/24/news/economy/great-recession-college-graduates/index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/great-recession-put-a-lasting-cap-on-millennials-earning-potential-2017-7

As suggested in reply #3, college seniors finding no luck in a recession job market but who can get into a funded graduate program may find the latter to be worthwhile in order to try to postpone the graduation date to a time when the job market is better.

A related problem where you have to graduate at the right time and be hired at the right time…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_recruiting_of_new_graduates

The pages that don’t load in Firefox appear to have syntax errors. Most browsers are tolerant of errors, up to a point.

Get your graduate degree, just in time for the next recession.