Posted on 09/30/2019 8:43:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hey, college kids, whether you’re a freshman or a returning junior, the first few weeks of festivities are now over. It’s time to focus on why you’re in school in the first place: to get a job.
You’re at college to make yourself as qualified as possible for your future, so pick your major wisely. There is great demand in numerous fields, and weak demand in many others.
And while the economy is very good, it’s still hard to find entry-level jobs right out of school.
Andrea Colabella, co-founder of the Cardea Group, a Manhattan-based recruitment firm focusing on alternative asset management, advises, “So much has changed through technology, and we only expect that to continue to happen. Pick a major that has some exposure to a growth area — engineering, computer science, law, etc.”
Computer and software engineering are in very high demand. Big data means big bucks. Nursing and health tech both pay very well.
Want to study a language? Forget Latin, study computer language. Very few people in the workforce know how to write even simple code.
Being proficient in Python, Java, C++ and other languages will get you not only a job, but a good paycheck, too.
Even if you go for finance or marketing, you’d better learn how to code and create data analytics, or it will be rough out there.
Technology in general is becoming more integral every day at every company, large and small. You’d better get tech-savvy at a relatively advanced level to compete in today’s workforce.
Make it a point early on to get involved with the college’s career development center. The first semester of your freshman year is not too soon.
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Those are good points.
Be confident that your courses will provide knowledge for employment: manufacturing, commerce etc.,
Many students follow their ‘hearts’ into courses that fascinate or seduce them; which is fine and may provide employment (teaching others;)
One word. Engineering
Increasingly, I think it is imperative that young college students learn how to do something as opposed to merely learning about something.
Anthropology and philosophy are useless? In my day, it was necessary to study this to get a BA. Knowing what the great thinkers of the past wrote broadens the mind. Knowing how people lived in the past makes one aware of the present and future. I would say it is NOT studying these subjects is why we see young people being “triggered” and frightened of the lies of global warming. These can be studied along with “useful” courses.
Learn plumbing.
You could start by teaching them how to change a light bulb. Or change a tire. Some of them really are that dumb.
I tell young people all the time that if they’d just learn plumbing, they’d be in beaucoup bucks in pretty short order.
They “key” is for parents to stand up to their children if they are doing the “follow-your-bliss-path” and say “ok but you’re then getting a minor (better a dual major!) in something where you’re employable! You don’t I am not paying for it. You can pay for your own ‘hobby degree’.” Parents have to get involved, put their foot down and monitor the situation. Its much harder now because with privacy laws which the child is of the age of majority grades don’t automatically come home in the mail. (Students usually have the option!) That was one of my rules If I am paying for it (or going into debt for it!) I am seeing your coursework & grades.
I’ve been an EE since 1985, got three good job offers before I had even graduated. I’ve made well over six figures in annual salary for at least 20 years.
I’m going to miss my salary when I retire at the end of next year LOL.
I don’t LOVE engineering, but I do like it a lot. Every hour of every work day is different, and I am never bored.
That one elective Western Civilization course has served me better than all those required advanced math courses.
At 20, I graduated debt free with a 4 year degree in 3 years and worked part time, did extra curriculars and still had plenty of spare time. Kids today throw tantrums at the very idea of working while taking a mere 9 hrs/sem and stretch graduation out to 5 years or more.
I should add that learning to speak and write well is imperative to professional success.
You can be very technically adept, but if your emails read like a dull-normal 6th grader wrote them, you have a problem. Saying “irregardless” and “that’s a mute point” are telltale signs that you need to improve your communication skills.
Darn right. “Don’t we know the worth of water when the well runs dry’’.- Ben Franklin.
I interviewed many engineers that I had to pass on because they could not write or communicate all that well. Likewise I found many whose technical training included ample design theory and similar esoteric extensions of their basic degree but who could not neatly quantify and record a list of toilet partitions.
Noticed in some govt. future employment prospects that this field is no longer listed as an up and coming career like it was a decade ago.
Biomedical Technician - work in lots of places.
Civil Eng. work in many places. Accounting.......... work anywhere.
The problem is, the more people who get Engineering degrees, there becomes less value having an Engineering degree
1) take a course in speed reading
2) take a course in typing
3) Learn how to write a report in Word
4) Learn how to build a spreadsheet
5) Learn how to make and present a presentation
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