Why is it so difficult for college students and recent graduates to find jobs right now?”
It wasn’t until last fall that Theresa Ross started to get really worried about finding a job. Before that, the 24-year-old Solon native was on what she hoped to be a fast track to success. After graduating with a marketing degree from Ohio State University in 2007, she started a three-month internship with BMW in Columbus. Her supervisors were happy with her performance and extended the paid marketing internship to six months, then to a year. Ross thought the experience might turn into full-time work. But by the time the internship ended last September, full-time job prospects were starting to deteriorate. Now, like many recent college graduates, Ross is discovering how scarce entry-level jobs have become in this recession. She is one of the 88 people The Plain Dealer is following in its “Help Wanted” series chronicling unemployment. More than 286,000 jobs have been lost in Ohio since the recession began in December 2007, more than two-thirds of them since last fall’s financial crisis
More and more college students, in recent years, are finding it difficult to find jobs. This may sound strange since college students used to be the “most favored” people in society. They have received a higher education, hence they are more intelligent, knowledgeable than their counterparts who failed to attend college. But chances are that some of them can hardly find jobs after graduating from colleges. There are two reasons that account for this strange phenomenon. One is that some college students cannot come to terms with themselves and with the world around them. They pursue too high goals and are too particular about such factors as working conditions, salary, and so on. Therefore, they are reluctant to accept the job when they are offered to them. Another reason is that the majors some students pursue do not match with the demands of the job market. As a result, they canonly sit and miss opportunities. To solve this problem, I think college students should know their own stren
