Because of the slower hiring environment, are newer graduates adopting more creative career routes, including starting their own businesses?
Career advisers at the BYU Marriott School of Management say they don’t see a lot of students starting their own businesses because it’s an extremely complicated process. This year, because a lot of bigger companies in the Fortune 200 category have implemented hiring freezes, more Marriott MBA graduates are deciding to get their Ph.D.s at a much earlier point in their academic career now, and more students are applying and accepting positions with reputable medium to smaller companies in Utah and nationally that have good potential and don’t have hiring freezes. In addition to seeking their Ph.D.s, Marriott says a lot of these business students are also going to law school, because it would augment their business reputation and ability to perform well in the business sector. Companies like IBM typically have 40 full-time positions for which they hire newer graduates, but this year, they have only 16. But because BYU Marriott has a good national reputation and ranking, their students ar
