Posted on 10/07/2025 8:18:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With a Georgetown University degree and several internships under her belt, Christina Salvadore thought she’d be starting a career in New York City’s fashion or beauty industries around now. The problem: She can’t find a job.
The 23-year-old hasn’t been able to land a full-time role despite filling out hundreds of applications and taking dozens of networking calls since graduating in the spring. She’s currently applying to part-time gigs to tide her over financially.
“It definitely sucks when people are like, ‘So what are you doing now?,‘” Salvadore, a Florida native, told CNBC. “I’m sitting in my parents’ house on LinkedIn 24 hours a day.”
A growing body of data shows Salvadore isn’t alone. Young college grads are having a uniquely difficult time trying to clinch their first full-time jobs and feeling the brunt of the weakening labor market.
On a macro level, this group’s tough luck is moving the needle in broader data sets that are used in part by economists and monetary policymakers to determine the health of the economy. For the hundreds of thousands of Americans in this camp, it’s altering their visions for what they thought this era of life would look like.
The unemployment rate for “new entrants,” a group that includes recent college grads and others trying to break in to the full-time workforce, hit a nine-year peak this year, federal data shows. The group’s share of the total unemployed population spiked to its highest percentage in decades.
Put simply: The U.S. has become “no country for young grads,” according to Gad Levanon, chief economist at Burning Glass Institute, and his team at the labor-focused think tank.
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My 1981 philosophy degree didn’t unlock anything for me, I did. Now comfortably retired with a nice firearms collection and a house in the mountains. A degree isn’t a magic key.
Mostly, I don’t think college is that good, but it got my son a commission, as an officer in the Air Force.
Next time get a a degree in a field that will get you REAL, practical, gainful employment.
I went through a version of that rude awakening when I graduated from Art College back in the Ice Ages of 1979.
After dealing with low level humiliation for not getting that Dream Job right away, I realized I needed to make a
Plan B., which I did.
One has to remain flexible when you’re on your own, moving back in the Family Home is not an option
(Father & Son butting heads) and want to keep the bills paid.
Well, I have two STEM degrees. Gave me a good career.
However, STEM degrees aren’t the guarantee of employment they once were.
Not only can’t they find jobs with their degrees, they are buried up to their eyeballs in student loan debt incurred getting those degrees, and the interest is accruing by the day.
It’s not because she has a degree in a useless field, it’s because she doesn’t have a degree in a useful field. Bad decisions but hey, she can become a YouTube influencer.
I’d like to see grade point average, major and minor, and see what they ended up doing on the first job. I think there are a lot of bogus majors (i.e., gender studies) that students get talked into. A comedian performing at a college had a Q&A after his performance and was asked if he always wanted to be a comedian. He said no, that he went to college and got a degree in History only to learn after graduation that all the History factories had closed.
500+ postings. And that's just one job search engine. I imagine there are many employment agencies as well.
Methinks perhaps the lady doth suck too much at fashion design.
700+ postings under “beauty industry” in NY on indeed.com
The value of a college degree has been watered down since the 90s IMO. By the 90s you were no longer special or stood out with only a college degree. You needed a grad degree for that. That wasn’t the case a generation earlier but with ever more people going to college it just didn’t mean as much anymore.
She says her Georgetown education is in ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS
That’s interesting. I had assumed it was a degree in fashion design. I guess the article’s “writer” forgot to mention that relevant detail.
Advice to H.S. graduates:
Go to a trade school.
Get certified in one or more:
1) Auto mechanics
2) Diesel mechanics
3) HVAC
4) Electrician
5) Plumbing
Work for someone while scrimping and savind to own your own shop.
I call jobs like that very “portable”.
You can relocate anywhere you want.
Jobs like that are available anywhere you want to go.
A specialized degree or job limits where you can work.
Port those jobs to red states with low regulation and even lower taxation.
Colleges have screwed their students by making their degrees worthless.
She should look for a job instead of a role.
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