I would not actually recommend a job in a startup for a recent grad. It would be better to get a few years of experience at a big company - just don’t stay too long, or you’ll never leave!
Unless your major is a good one that involves hands-on LAB TIME, it’s best to NOT go to college.
“If the US University system were a stock, I would SHORT it.”
—Peter Thiel, famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist
I got my engineering degree at a college with a coop program. I learned what type of company I wouldn’t want to work for and where I’d be happy. Spent 4 years with the best company that I’d worked for in college and then moved up to another company and a better position.
Many students who go to Ivy League (read big bucks) school expect to make big bucks on the 1st job after school. So when someone from an Ivy League school says he can't find a job, he means he can't find someone willing to pay $100K+ to hire a recent college grad.
When I was in college (EE major) I was told to treat it as a 40 your a week job - 8 hours a day. My reply was, “no way”. But it was amazing. When I tried this it really worked! (With exceptions for certain exams). And this really prepared me for my first “real job” when the time came.
It really does not take any more than that.
When I was getting my EE Degree at the UW-Madison in the late 60s, they had the “Engineering Placement Office”, where we were taught and coached in resume development, researched potential employers, and then had initial screening interviews with them when their recruiters came to the campus. I ended up with three offers. Took the wrong one, in aerospace, six months before the government killed 100k jobs...to spend the money on...unemployment!
The problem for a lot of college grads is that their “skills” are absolutely useless! The fallback used to be the MBA, but SJWs have destroyed that one as well!
I’m very proud of my 2 kids. The oldest finished college last December with a biochemistry degree and very quickly landed a job with a major pharmaceutical manufacturer. The youngest will finish college in May with a major in finance/economics. He just received an offer from IBM as a financial analyst.
They both went to a medium sized state school. University of Minnesota - Duluth.
You can’t imagine the relief.