Howard: ?other than Verizon ?worked with the elderly and the mentally disabled?working for this company called clean team just cleaning offices ? got to package up the stickers and ship them off to different parts of the US ? I worked at the PBS station ? I worked at a Laundromat for a while too.??
But none of them are the job she went to college for.?
Howard: ?Well I?ve always wanted to work on this show called The Office,?but now that Steve Carrell?s not on there anymore I don?t really want to do it anymore. I guess I just want to work in the entertainment industry.??
Howard graduated from Bowling Green University in 2009 with a bachelor?s degree in popular culture and a minor in psychology.?But instead of working in Hollywood, she?s moved in with her parents, saving money and looking for full-time work.?
Howard: ?This is the website obviously, and I guess just depending on what kind of search I want to do ? lately I?ve been looking for temporary??
Howard?s situation is pretty typical, says Kacee Ferrell Snyder. Snyder is assistant director of the career development at Bowling Green.?
Snyder: ?I?ve seen a fair amount of people that have worked in retail jobs or you know in Starbucks, not as a manager but sort of on the front lines doing customer service kind of things and it doesn?t ever surprise me because I know that that?s just a reality for a fair amount of people.??
Snyder works specifically with alumni who graduated three or more years ago. Her position is brand new. It?s a response to people who graduated three, or thirty years ago and find themselves looking for work. In fact, Snyder says universities around the country are adding offices to assist older alumni.?
Snyder: ?I think it?s starting to become more of a trend with the economy and stuff more schools are seeing a need for it.??
Snyder counsels a lot of frustrated young people. People who assumed they?d have no problem finding work, as long as they studied hard and got a degree.?
Snyder: ?I feel like we owe it to tell people ?going to college does not guarantee you a certain standard of life or a job or any of that kind of stuff.? You have to be realistic with people and we owe it to them to prepare themselves to do what they need to do to be successful when they finish.??
This past spring, a study from Rutgers University found that nearly half the college graduates from 2010 were still job searching a year later. The unemployment rate for people with a Bachelor?s degree or more has hit a 30-year high.?
John Weber with the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services says that wasn?t always the case.?
Webber: ?Usually when you got a college degree most people found a job within 3-4 months and now it?s taking a little bit longer.??
Weber says the biggest challenge young job-seekers face isn?t that they can?t apply for unemployment benefits or have less social support than older job seekers. It?s their competition.?
Weber: ?They may be a higher educated individual but they?re in strict competition with those with lesser education but 10 or 15 years of work experience.??
That?s what Steve Ording found. He has a finance degree from Bowling Green.?
Ording: ?The entry-level positions are all of a sudden 3 ? 5 year experience demanded.??
Ording figured he?d have no problem landing a job right out of college. He dreamt of working in New York City, but it wasn?t long into his freshman year when things fell through.?
Ording: ?It just so happened to be 2007 at the height of the economy so I thought I was on my way to be a Wall Street analyst, I had my future ahead of me. And then next semester the economy crashed.??
Ording is actually a shining example of a successful job hunt these days. It only took him half a year to land a full time position.?
Ording: ?Oh, it felt like forever.??
Ording?s new job isn?t the glamorous Wall Street gig he hoped for. But it?s a good job, in his hometown of Detroit.?
As for that job in the big apple, he hasn?t given up yet Just pushed it off, until the economy improves a bit.
Source: http://www.wksu.org/news/story/30261
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