After 60 job applications, honor student back home in Missoula

[Arraya]

http://www.missoulian.com/business/local/article_f3cc8442-ddc9-11de-abed-001cc4c002e0.html
She graduated magna cum laude from the GW business school in May, applied for 30 jobs at some of America’s best-known companies, and heard nothing. After visiting the campus career center and redesigning her resume, she applied for 10 more. Still nothing. The lease expired on her Washington apartment in June. There was no place to go but home, with a collection of rejection letters and a haunting sense of betrayal. For 23 years, she had advanced down America’s path to success – perfect grades, a $200,000 college degree, a folder overstuffed with business cards – only to have it dead-end back where she started.

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This is the resume Melissa carries with her one September morning as she enters an orientation meeting for prospective Missoula substitute teachers. She has never taught before, nor does she particularly enjoy children, but she has been turned down by a restaurant, a bakery and an herbal shop during the last two weeks.

More than 75 others are crowded into a room when Melissa arrives. There are women in business suits and men in ties, all carrying three letters of recommendation and hoping for a chance to earn $10.29 an hour without benefits by substituting in a school district that has only four high schools. A middle-aged man stands at the front of the room and explains the order in which Missoula substitutes will be selected. He asks those who qualify under each category to raise their hands.

“Who here is an assistant teacher?”
Six hands shoot up.

“OK. Who has a teaching degree?”
Fifteen more people raise their hands.

“Great. And who has a college major that is taught at the high school level, like English or science?”

Practically the whole room is reaching toward the sky now, but Melissa, who majored in marketing and finance, continues to scribble on the cover of a seminar handout. Not until 15 minutes later, near the conclusion of the seminar, does the instructor explain how “less-qualified” teachers like Melissa can win substitute assignments. She should print out business cards and hand them to her old teachers at Sentinel High School, he suggests. Maybe the staff will help out a former valedictorian by requesting her as a substitute.

“My triumphant return!” Melissa whispers sarcastically.

[Arraya]

haha… UC Just raised tuition.

2011-2012 student loan default crisis

[Arraya]

haha… UC Just raised tuition.

2011-2012 student loan default crisis

[Arraya]

haha… UC Just raised tuition.

2011-2012 student loan default crisis

[Arraya]

haha… UC Just raised tuition.

2011-2012 student loan default crisis

[Arraya]

haha… UC Just raised tuition.

2011-2012 student loan default crisis

[Coronita]

Simple supply and demand….Too MBAs chasing too few positions. Wasn’t this the route a lot of folks went to escape the “threat of outsourcing”? I read too many times awhile back college folks were saying “why should I major in engineering when I can go get an MBA and do some higher level stuff”.

Well, I think they are finding out is that higher level stuff is “fluff” that usually is reserved for a very select few truely smart people. Everyone else gets pushed into being a business analyst, marketing helper, etc, which is the first thing to go when expenses need to be cut.

Meanwhile, we just hired a few recent college grads with with a M.S and 0-1 year of experience….Starting salary is $80k excluding benefits/etc. I never thought starting salaries were as good as they are, but again, I guess it’s supply and demand….And QC is like trying to hire a boatload, so we had to compete with them. There’s never been a better time to a new college grad with the right engineering degree. In today’s economy, companies are looking to cut the more expensive enginerds and replace then with 3-4 younger versions. I will I was starting out from college now.

[Coronita]

Simple supply and demand….Too MBAs chasing too few positions. Wasn’t this the route a lot of folks went to escape the “threat of outsourcing”? I read too many times awhile back college folks were saying “why should I major in engineering when I can go get an MBA and do some higher level stuff”.

Well, I think they are finding out is that higher level stuff is “fluff” that usually is reserved for a very select few truely smart people. Everyone else gets pushed into being a business analyst, marketing helper, etc, which is the first thing to go when expenses need to be cut.

Meanwhile, we just hired a few recent college grads with with a M.S and 0-1 year of experience….Starting salary is $80k excluding benefits/etc. I never thought starting salaries were as good as they are, but again, I guess it’s supply and demand….And QC is like trying to hire a boatload, so we had to compete with them. There’s never been a better time to a new college grad with the right engineering degree. In today’s economy, companies are looking to cut the more expensive enginerds and replace then with 3-4 younger versions. I will I was starting out from college now.

[Coronita]

Simple supply and demand….Too MBAs chasing too few positions. Wasn’t this the route a lot of folks went to escape the “threat of outsourcing”? I read too many times awhile back college folks were saying “why should I major in engineering when I can go get an MBA and do some higher level stuff”.

Well, I think they are finding out is that higher level stuff is “fluff” that usually is reserved for a very select few truely smart people. Everyone else gets pushed into being a business analyst, marketing helper, etc, which is the first thing to go when expenses need to be cut.

Meanwhile, we just hired a few recent college grads with with a M.S and 0-1 year of experience….Starting salary is $80k excluding benefits/etc. I never thought starting salaries were as good as they are, but again, I guess it’s supply and demand….And QC is like trying to hire a boatload, so we had to compete with them. There’s never been a better time to a new college grad with the right engineering degree. In today’s economy, companies are looking to cut the more expensive enginerds and replace then with 3-4 younger versions. I will I was starting out from college now.

[Coronita]

Simple supply and demand….Too MBAs chasing too few positions. Wasn’t this the route a lot of folks went to escape the “threat of outsourcing”? I read too many times awhile back college folks were saying “why should I major in engineering when I can go get an MBA and do some higher level stuff”.

Well, I think they are finding out is that higher level stuff is “fluff” that usually is reserved for a very select few truely smart people. Everyone else gets pushed into being a business analyst, marketing helper, etc, which is the first thing to go when expenses need to be cut.

Meanwhile, we just hired a few recent college grads with with a M.S and 0-1 year of experience….Starting salary is $80k excluding benefits/etc. I never thought starting salaries were as good as they are, but again, I guess it’s supply and demand….And QC is like trying to hire a boatload, so we had to compete with them. There’s never been a better time to a new college grad with the right engineering degree. In today’s economy, companies are looking to cut the more expensive enginerds and replace then with 3-4 younger versions. I will I was starting out from college now.

[Coronita]

Simple supply and demand….Too MBAs chasing too few positions. Wasn’t this the route a lot of folks went to escape the “threat of outsourcing”? I read too many times awhile back college folks were saying “why should I major in engineering when I can go get an MBA and do some higher level stuff”.

Well, I think they are finding out is that higher level stuff is “fluff” that usually is reserved for a very select few truely smart people. Everyone else gets pushed into being a business analyst, marketing helper, etc, which is the first thing to go when expenses need to be cut.

Meanwhile, we just hired a few recent college grads with with a M.S and 0-1 year of experience….Starting salary is $80k excluding benefits/etc. I never thought starting salaries were as good as they are, but again, I guess it’s supply and demand….And QC is like trying to hire a boatload, so we had to compete with them. There’s never been a better time to a new college grad with the right engineering degree. In today’s economy, companies are looking to cut the more expensive enginerds and replace then with 3-4 younger versions. I will I was starting out from college now.

[Arraya]

Yes and demand for just about everything will be going down and 70% of college grads have worthless degrees. Well, not worthless, just vastly overpriced.

The tuition bubble will pop eventually.

[Arraya]

Yes and demand for just about everything will be going down and 70% of college grads have worthless degrees. Well, not worthless, just vastly overpriced.

The tuition bubble will pop eventually.

[Arraya]

Yes and demand for just about everything will be going down and 70% of college grads have worthless degrees. Well, not worthless, just vastly overpriced.

The tuition bubble will pop eventually.

[Arraya]

Yes and demand for just about everything will be going down and 70% of college grads have worthless degrees. Well, not worthless, just vastly overpriced.

The tuition bubble will pop eventually.

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