I think it's impossible to find a job right now

[Excelsior]

Nay. I just landed one 2 months out of school. But I am in health care.

 

[IGBT]

cap/trade and federal medical will cause yet another round of lay off's. reducing payroll and down sizing business is the choice way to deduce federal mandate load.

 

[xeemzor]

There still seem to be quite a few accounting jobs out there due to varies new government regulations. I know the recruiters are out in full force at my school. They were supposed to fill their winter internship positions by now, but many companies haven't been able to find enough people so they are recruiting at the campus career fair for positions this winter. There seem to be positions open for the a certain sect of majors, but many people I know who are in more general majors (psychology, english, communications, marketing) are having a great deal of difficulty finding open positions.

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: Leros
I have a lot of friends who are just graduating colleges who are getting numerous job offers.

depends on the industry. If you are in enviromental engineer, you are gonna find a job. My firm cannot find anybody and my group has been looking for an Electrical Engineer for 2 years.

how about for mechanical engineers?

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: Leros
I have a lot of friends who are just graduating colleges who are getting numerous job offers.

depends on the industry. If you are in enviromental engineer, you are gonna find a job. My firm cannot find anybody and my group has been looking for an Electrical Engineer for 2 years.

All of my friends are EE, CE, or CS. There are tons of jobs out there. Our career fair was booming and our job posting board has hundreds of jobs.

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: Leros
I have a lot of friends who are just graduating colleges who are getting numerous job offers.

depends on the industry. If you are in enviromental engineer, you are gonna find a job. My firm cannot find anybody and my group has been looking for an Electrical Engineer for 2 years.

All of my friends are EE, CE, or CS. There are tons of jobs out there. Our career fair was booming and our job posting board has hundreds of jobs.

I would say there some truth to this even in CA. I always see job postings for Software Engineers when I'm browsing my school's job website.

 

[Babbles]

I just started my MBA program - as a quick aside I do have nine years as a chemist under my belt so I am an experienced professional on the market - and I have already attended two national MBA career fairs. What I have found is that there are indeed tons of hiring opportunities. Interestingly (or maybe not so interestingly) enough is that the federal government has a boat load of job opportunities, so be sure to look into the government if you can not find a career option in the private industry.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Dear Summer
I've been applying almost every night. Sending out resumes and custom tailored cover letters, and have not gotten one invitation to interview yet.

anyone have luck recently?

I've had 2 or 3 interviews in about 7 months. I've sent out a bunch of resumes also, certainly more than 2 or 3.

 

[NatePo717]

I'm getting close to a year unemployed. It is so depressing 🙁. I've managed to find a few little part time jobs doing some QA testing but that's about it.

I want my old job back..... Was an HVAC Designer.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Not impossible... just hard. Gotta look in the right place, and most of all, have CONTACTS.

I got a job at the beginning of the month (finally). Not easy for a fresh-out-of-college guy to get something around here. Only way I got this job was a friend knew the guy who is now my boss, knew he was looking, and referred him and I. It is not local though, I commute an hour one way to get to the job. I'll relocate, eventually, but it started as part time 1st (though I went from 16 hours my first week to 29 hours this past week). Once it becomes full time I'll move.

Had I not had the personal contact, I never would have gotten the job.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Dear Summer
I've been applying almost every night. Sending out resumes and custom tailored cover letters, and have not gotten one invitation to interview yet.

anyone have luck recently?

You need to follow up on all those applications. Companies remember people who check up on their applications, it makes them look motivated.

 

[timosyy]

Turned in 6 applications/resumes so far, and have 4 interviews lined up starting... today (MIS major, large consulting firms).

My situation is different coming out of college though-- Companies don't really expect a depth of work experience (outside of an internship junior year perhaps), and my GPA puts me in the top percentiles of my graduating class. It's also a rather small (we graduate about 70 people this year I think) but in-demand major.

I'm nervous as heck going into this first interview in a few hours, but confident that I'll have a job before I graduate. Statistics are on my side (my major had ~90% job placement before graduation last year, which was pretty bad economically as well IIRC).

 

[GTaudiophile]

Move to Washington. Obama is hiring. Government is expanding!

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: NatePo717
I'm getting close to a year unemployed. It is so depressing 🙁. I've managed to find a few little part time jobs doing some QA testing but that's about it.

I want my old job back..... Was an HVAC Designer.

HVAC is transforming into Greener technology.

There is a lot of retrofitting to be done.

 

[teatime0315]

I've been looking for work for over a half a year already. I got like two interviews out of the countless resumes I sent in. I'm not even looking for a professional job yet. Just your typical part-time college student job. I have a friend who knows a starbucks manager. I'm hoping he'll hook it up. I'm just desperate now.

 

[Fritzo]

Maybe the beer before the interview to help relax is doing it?

 

[SuperSix]

Sitting back, firing off tons of resumes to online ads will not work.

What are you doing to separate yourself from the myriad of other applicants? Are you following up each and every application with a PHONE CALL? At the very least an email?

Thisnk about it that way - you are nothing but another email submission in a sea of desperate people.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
Sitting back, firing off tons of resumes to online ads will not work.

What are you doing to separate yourself from the myriad of other applicants? Are you following up each and every application with a PHONE CALL? At the very least an email?

Thisnk about it that way - you are nothing but another email submission in a sea of desperate people.

I'm involved with hiring at our company. The follow-up phone call is not needed and actually annoying. If your resume stands out, we'll call you. Things that catch our eye is having experience and skills in the area we're looking to fill. Also, your cover letter should show you've actually looked into what our company does and you explain how your skills can be an asset.

This is where working as an intern in college could have really helped. We hire a good 80% of our interns.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
Sitting back, firing off tons of resumes to online ads will not work.

What are you doing to separate yourself from the myriad of other applicants? Are you following up each and every application with a PHONE CALL? At the very least an email?

Thisnk about it that way - you are nothing but another email submission in a sea of desperate people.

Knowing someone, anyone, in a company is also a big way to distinguish yourself. I've got an interview with a very large very desired company next week because of a recommendation from a guy who merely interned their last year.

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: sandmanwake

Originally posted by: BoomerD
The official unemployment rate in my county just dropped...from 16.3% to 15.8%...but the EDD admits that the "unofficial rate" which includes people who have exhausted their benefits and/or have just given up looking is well over 20%.
.

There's something decidedly shady in my opinion about not counting people who are still looking for work, but whose benefits ran out. The ones who gave up, I can sort of understand. Not quite sure how you're supposed to feed and house yourself if you just give up though.

We've got this wonderful thing in our country called welfare where all the productive members of society get to pay for the people who just "give up".

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: Modular
But do you have Hope and Change?

I feel stimulusated.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: sandmanwake

Originally posted by: BoomerD
The official unemployment rate in my county just dropped...from 16.3% to 15.8%...but the EDD admits that the "unofficial rate" which includes people who have exhausted their benefits and/or have just given up looking is well over 20%.
.

There's something decidedly shady in my opinion about not counting people who are still looking for work, but whose benefits ran out. The ones who gave up, I can sort of understand. Not quite sure how you're supposed to feed and house yourself if you just give up though.

We've got this wonderful thing in our country called welfare where all the productive members of society get to pay for the people who just "give up".

Generally, the ones who have "given up" either have a spouse or other family member to help support them, OR, are doing "odd jobs" for cash to survive. Doesn't automatically mean they're collecting welfare.


Sandman, they skew the numbers to make the unemployment rate LOOK better than it actually is. There are several different methodologies used to count the unemployed, and MOST don't count the under-employed, the folks who are working part-time because it's the only thing they can find, and those who have gone back to school to try to improve their marketability or learn new careers.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Kalmah
I've been unemployed for uh... 9 months now? I've been sending several resumes and turning in applications daily for the last 9 months.

Guess how many calls I've had for an interview.. 0 (that is ZERO).

.

you aren't alone 🙁

I just passed the 1k resumes sent out mark, gotten 2 call backs 1 went to the next round. fun times

damn, i had a spreadsheet of resumes sent back when I was graduating in 2004, I had around 200 and I got 4 interviews.

 

[ahenkel]

Mild rant -

Got a call from someone yesterday regarding a job locally, basically she said she found my resume liked it and would be willing to hire me based on the phone interview, I just needed to pass a drug and background check.
Get an email today telling me the position was filled internally
Me a little pissed off

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Gibson486

Originally posted by: Leros
I have a lot of friends who are just graduating colleges who are getting numerous job offers.

depends on the industry. If you are in enviromental engineer, you are gonna find a job. My firm cannot find anybody and my group has been looking for an Electrical Engineer for 2 years.

All of my friends are EE, CE, or CS. There are tons of jobs out there. Our career fair was booming and our job posting board has hundreds of jobs.

Your career fair, let me guess.....it was Parsons, CDM, Raytheon, Lockheed, GE Power, Siemens, untility companies, maybe a few local companies that make power supplies, few start up firms, maybe a company like National Instruments?

there are tons of jobs out there....but lots of them are for enviromental engineering or defense.


Defense is gonna hire regardless of where the economy goes....why? Because years ago, defense companies decided that it would be a good idea to lay off the young peopel and just keep the experienced ones. LIttle did they realize that those old people would eventually retire and that not all of them could handle being in defense for more than 10 years. Now, Raytheon and company are hiring new engineers like mad because they are tons of engineers getting ready to retire.


Enviromental engineering is hiring like crazy because, well, it's the enviroment. For years, municipalities and industrial waste were not paid attention too and regulations were not tight at all. Years later, the govt started pointing fingers and places started hiring bad firms (ie cheapest firms) to do the jobs. Fast forward to today....those places that hired bad forms are left with plants that are about to fall apart. Those plants are a dime a dozen now and now new firms have to be hired to clean up the mess. Factor in the fact that the phase of being green is big now. It's an industry that will grow for another 10 years despite what the economy does.