{"id":13413,"date":"2015-04-23T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryantriangle.wpengine.com\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2022-11-08T04:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:23:49","slug":"battling-senioritis-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/battling-senioritis-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling senioritis \u2014 maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a senior is tough. We\u2019re graduating in under a month. There are only ten days of classes left to finish all of those projects. We\u2019re about to go out into the \u201creal world.\u201d It\u2019s terrifying.<\/p>\n

The unemployment rate for twenty-something Americans who received at least a bachelor\u2019s degree last year rose from 10.9% in 2013 to 12.4%.<\/p>\n

Even if there was a job out there targeted towards grads, chances are that it has been filled by now, according to job listings website Simply Hired. By April, about two-thirds of employers say they have already made offers to college seniors ready to fill their positions.<\/p>\n

So we know it\u2019s tough to find a job, but thanks to a study from CNN<\/a> we also know that 36.7% of recent graduates who were lucky enough to find a job are working in positions that do not even require a college degree.<\/p>\n

Being a senior is exciting. We\u2019re graduating in under a month. There are only ten days of classes left until all of those projects are finished. We\u2019re about to go out into the \u201creal world.\u201d It\u2019s thrilling.<\/p>\n

According to the same CNN study as above, students who worked in their fields of study while in college were much more likely to end up with college-level employment.<\/p>\n

EY (Ernst & Young, a professional services firm, based in London) is planning to hire 9,000 graduates this year (up from 7,500 in 2014). We owe this in part to the generation of baby boomers who are now starting to retire, according to Paul Wiseman, an Associated Press economics writer.<\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t alone. the National Association of Colleges and Employe (NACE) predicts that employers will increase overall hiring by 9.6 percent.<\/p>\n

Plus, the benefits of a college degree pay off better in some states than others, according to a study<\/a> by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. So, if you\u2019re from one of the following 10 states, you may have it a little easier (and if you\u2019re not, you may want to pack up and move there).<\/p>\n

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  1. Massachusetts \u2014 best for software developers, computer occupations, managers<\/li>\n
  2. Delaware \u2014 software developers, computer occupations, financial analysts<\/li>\n
  3. Washington \u2014 software developers, nurses, computer occupations<\/li>\n
  4. Colorado \u2014 nurses, software developers, computer occupations<\/li>\n
  5. Alaska \u2014 nurses, medical and health services managers, civil engineers<\/li>\n
  6. Arizona \u2014 software developers, nurses, computer occupations<\/li>\n
  7. Oregon \u2014 software developers, computer occupations, nurses<\/li>\n
  8. California \u2014 software developers, computer occupations, sales representatives<\/li>\n
  9. Minnesota \u2014 software developers, computer occupations, sales representatives<\/li>\n
  10. Texas \u2014 software developers, computer occupations, nurses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It is particularly good news if you are studying to become a software developer, computer professional or nurse.<\/p>\n

    Even if you aren\u2019t studying one of those three, a Pew Research<\/a> analyst said those with a college degree can reasonably expect to earn around $500,000 more over a lifetime than their GED or equivalent peers.<\/p>\n

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    Photo courtesy Pew Research Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    So buck up. There are thousands of ways to look at the situation (well, at least two).<\/p>\n

    You may not get a job right away, and it might be drudgery to keep looking. But you can have a cheerful attitude. And that will make all of the difference. The opposite is just as true: a piece of cake interview and a job right out of college may make you miserable. I know it sounds clich\u00e9, but the easier you are to drag down, the more frequently you will find yourself in the pits.<\/p>\n

    The choice is yours. Your decision may make the months ahead extremely tough. It may make them tremendously exciting. Either way, it\u2019ll be your fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Being a senior is tough. We\u2019re graduating in under a month. There are only ten days of classes left to finish all of those projects. We\u2019re about to go out into the \u201creal world.\u201d It\u2019s terrifying. The unemployment rate for twenty-something Americans who received at least a bachelor\u2019s degree last year rose from 10.9% in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,6],"tags":[4616,3768,4617,3817,4615,3193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15971,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bryantriangle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}