Recent surveys have shown that college graduates regrest not having looked for a job sooner, having had a job in college and not having done more networking. Some reasons are that about a third are currently living with their parents and could not find a job right out of college and about ten percent did not need the 4 year degree which they went to college in the first place to obtain (which they would know if they had looked more at jobs)
I think this is an interesting conundrum. With the economy the way that it is I would expect nothing less since jobs are so scarce. In addition, because technology is changing so rapidly and at an increasing rate, you have to expect that jobs will change and you may need alot of on the job training or different training than you originally went into college expecting you would need. This has given me some perspective to see that I need to pay more attention to my career after college while in college than I may realize. I have to look out for what will happen to me when I leave college because there is such uncertainty as to what jobs will be available and what my job will require after I am done with college.
Original article: http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/04/27/6544524-college-students-try-less-beer-more-networking
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