Forced optimism
I went through a brief dedicated, excited phase in my job search. It's a new year! Companies are hiring again! Ooh, and I've even figured out better how to find jobs that could be a good fit.
This culminated recently in actually talking to an HR representative on the phone and being asked to do a writing exercise. It's been a week since I sent it ( Read more... )
This culminated recently in actually talking to an HR representative on the phone and being asked to do a writing exercise. It's been a week since I sent it ( Read more... )
Really, though, I think most people who get stuck waitressing forever tend to get that way because they have either minimal education, or else too much education for their circumstances (e.g., got a J.D. but lack the credentials/connections/grades/luck to find legal employment in the lousy legal market, spent a zillion years getting an Art History Ph.D. but can't find academic employment, etc.) and get turned away from almost literally everything because they're "overqualified" (i.e., employers assume they're a flight risk because they'd rather be lawyering or professoring or whatever). I don't think it happens as much to B.A.s since they aren't as likely to fall into that underqualified/overqualified hole when applying for entry-level work. Not that it's EASY to find a job as a B.A., obviously it's not and I don't mean to sound that way at all, but I think it's easier than if you have either no degree or a super-specific ultra-degree that makes you less employable in unrelated markets. At least that's the impression I've been getting. A lot of the people in that youth unemployment article have the overeducation/overqualified problem.
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