And even chiefs need to start somewhere. They don't get hatched out of thin air. Not everyone's expertise in a specific domain lends well to creating one's own business straight out of college. Most jobs nowadays require on-the-job, industry-specific learning, which cannot be acquired from a school.
If you apply to 759 jobs and get 0 is it you or the jobmarket?
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And even chiefs need to start somewhere. They don't get hatched out of thin air. Not everyone's expertise in a specific domain lends well to creating one's own business straight out of college. Most jobs nowadays require on-the-job, industry-specific learning, which cannot be acquired from a school.
I think Wilt Chamberlain missed that many in a row once.
pitz if you couldn't find a job with a supposedly good GPA from a supposedly good school, then the problem is you. (and let's be real, everyone thinks their school is a top 10 school, but they're not.)
i know dozens of people employed in tech now and only 2 who are not working. a few were laid off but found jobs eventually. one of the unemployed guys isn't working because he's a stubborn mofo who is holding out for the same $150k/year job he lost 1 year ago.
the tech companies i worked for hired 100+ engineers from 2001 to 2007 (when i left the field), and 1/3 were college grads. i personally interviewed dozens of candidates and i know some of them were hired. wtf are you talking about? if you think nobody was hiring engineers last decade then the problem is you thinking you're better than you really are.
i know dozens of people employed in tech now and only 2 who are not working. a few were laid off but found jobs eventually. one of the unemployed guys isn't working because he's a stubborn mofo who is holding out for the same $150k/year job he lost 1 year ago.
the tech companies i worked for hired 100+ engineers from 2001 to 2007 (when i left the field), and 1/3 were college grads. i personally interviewed dozens of candidates and i know some of them were hired. wtf are you talking about? if you think nobody was hiring engineers last decade then the problem is you thinking you're better than you really are.
the H1 visa problem is overblown. only marginally-qualified workers worry about indians coming to the US to take their jobs. and it's not like these marginal workers were going to get the job anyway. do you think a 2.8 GPA from devry university or a technology certificate from heald business school was going land you a job, regardless of how many H1's there are?
i worked in tech and conducted technical interviews for candidates and believe me, i don't know how the f* some of these people graduated with bachelor's degrees.
i worked in tech and conducted technical interviews for candidates and believe me, i don't know how the f* some of these people graduated with bachelor's degrees.
Its far broader than that. H1-B's have displaced America's best and brightest grads.
Yet resumes like mine never even hit your desk because they get mixed in with 200-500 others, and your HR people likely pick, at random, 20 to read further, investigate, and interview. As I said earlier, I could be Linus Torvalds applying for a kernel programming position at Microsoft, and still not get an interview, with the way that things are out there.
To the other poster who suggested there's a problem with me -- if there was a problem with me, the effects would be limited to me. They're not. Entire graduating classes are unemployed, in particular, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, etc. That suggests a more systemic problem. And the university I attended was ranked top-20 in the Gorman Report:
http://fh.rolia.net/f0/c1150/hit/post/213035.html
(1998 rankings...when I was going through).
And yeah, I agree...the Devry people are hopeless... Lol.
America's best and brightest grads are pretty f'in stupid then, if they get displaced by curry eating drones. Yeah but how can you compete with this.
