Summary: One of the more interesting readings in Behrens and Rosen’s Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum was “Many with New College Degree Find the Job Market Humbling”, by Catherine Rampell. She reveals just how severe our job market truly is. She explains that employment for recent college graduates strikes a low point. Also, the opening salaries for these scarce jobs plummeted compared to the previous years. Likewise, most jobs that these college graduates are taking do not even require a college education, such as waiting tables or working in fast food. This poses an even bigger problem, because the people without as high of education now have an even yet tougher time landing a job. Not only can they not get a job, but they probably
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Rampell pointed out that only 56 percent of college graduates were holding jobs by spring, and most of those jobs were jobs that either had unquestionably no correlation to their degree, or did not require education past a high school diploma. It was said that only half of recent college graduates that had their first job required a college degree. Rampell also discussed just how important choosing a degree not only that would interest you, but a degree that would have a higher chance of allowing you to actually acquiring a job in that field. The degrees that hold the most job opportunities at this time are degrees in education and teaching or engineering. The graduates with humanities degrees were less likely to find a job requiring a college …show more content…
The job market is crashing, not allowing many to hold a job that they desire. I was unaware that not only the amount of jobs available crashed, but also the starting salaries of these jobs. I feel that this poses a great issue to new graduates, as also the cost of a formal education has escalated significantly in the past decade. I also never noticed that the fact that many college graduates obtain jobs that do not even require a college education is an issue; this reduces the amount of available jobs for those that do not hold a college degree. This causes the majority of the young population to have either no job, or a job that is not up to their education. This reading also allowed me to realize how many jobs put a college education as a required element of their applications. Most jobs, genuinely, do not require a 4-year college degree. Only jobs in medicine, dentistry, law, engineering, and a handful of other career choices should really require and benefit from 4-year college degrees. I believe that companies mostly use that as a requirement to find individuals that have proven that they are dedicated, and that they can be reliable. It really should not matter which specific degree that the potential employee has, as long as they were dedicated enough to stick through college without dropping out. Also, many people have
Rampell pointed out that only 56 percent of college graduates were holding jobs by spring, and most of those jobs were jobs that either had unquestionably no correlation to their degree, or did not require education past a high school diploma. It was said that only half of recent college graduates that had their first job required a college degree. Rampell also discussed just how important choosing a degree not only that would interest you, but a degree that would have a higher chance of allowing you to actually acquiring a job in that field. The degrees that hold the most job opportunities at this time are degrees in education and teaching or engineering. The graduates with humanities degrees were less likely to find a job requiring a college …show more content…
The job market is crashing, not allowing many to hold a job that they desire. I was unaware that not only the amount of jobs available crashed, but also the starting salaries of these jobs. I feel that this poses a great issue to new graduates, as also the cost of a formal education has escalated significantly in the past decade. I also never noticed that the fact that many college graduates obtain jobs that do not even require a college education is an issue; this reduces the amount of available jobs for those that do not hold a college degree. This causes the majority of the young population to have either no job, or a job that is not up to their education. This reading also allowed me to realize how many jobs put a college education as a required element of their applications. Most jobs, genuinely, do not require a 4-year college degree. Only jobs in medicine, dentistry, law, engineering, and a handful of other career choices should really require and benefit from 4-year college degrees. I believe that companies mostly use that as a requirement to find individuals that have proven that they are dedicated, and that they can be reliable. It really should not matter which specific degree that the potential employee has, as long as they were dedicated enough to stick through college without dropping out. Also, many people have