Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer
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Anonymous
| This! Go to Career Services. There are many options. He just needs to ask for help. |
Anonymous
| Give him some time and encourage ment. |
Anonymous
When I graduated from an Ivy League school and had no full time job offer lined up, I interviewed with a few different temp agencies in my home town and they were thrilled to hire me. I could type well; I had great grammar, spelling and punctuation. I spoke English. I learned quickly. I don't recommend working for a temp agency, but getting hired was not a problem. |
Anonymous
He's 22 and never even had a part time job. Time for tough love. He's had time and support and chosen not to use it. |
Anonymous
That is actually one of the first questions we ask at our company. |
Anonymous
| OP refuses to state his major or GPA. |
Anonymous
When I graduated from an Ivy League school and had no full time job offer lined up, I interviewed with a few different temp agencies in my home town and they were thrilled to hire me. I could type well; I had great grammar, spelling and punctuation. I spoke English. I learned quickly. I don't recommend working for a temp agency, but getting hired was not a problem. In DC, temp agencies do place a lot of people with great jobs. I've hired a bunch of temps as full time employees. They were recent college grads, oftentimes taking off a couple years before going back to graduate school. |
Anonymous
Or even what field he is interested in, which makes it hard to help him. |
Anonymous
In DC, temp agencies do place a lot of people with great jobs. I've hired a bunch of temps as full time employees. They were recent college grads, oftentimes taking off a couple years before going back to graduate school. This is what I did coming out of a slac. The first placement I got allowed temps access to internal job postings and I ended up getting a job that I wanted after a couple of weeks of temping. |
Anonymous
This. Why the heck did the parents not require a job, any job!, during summer breaks. I hire interns and never consider one that has zero work experience. Doesn't need to be at all related to the field (we get that from classes and projects) but I want to know you have experienced showing up on time, doing a job that's sometimes tedious, interacting with customers (we're a client-service business), getting along with coworkers. |
Anonymous
Top colleges have stopped requiring work study for students on FA. All FA is in grants now, and all the campus jobs go to unionized adult employees. I think that was a bad turn of events. The rich kids, it doesn’t matter if they have work experience or not, they’ll get hired by their dad’s firm. |
Anonymous
I don't even want 'relevant' experience for interns because half the time it means sitting in dad's office surfing. If a kid has held retail, grocery, restaurant, landscaping... jobs and lasted for multiple years or even a whole summer, I know that they can at least show up on time and won't think they're too good for a task. |
Anonymous
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1%er here.
We hire the kids that have worked grocery, restaurant and landscaping jobs with college degrees. We look for hustle. |
Anonymous
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OP,
You might send your son to the military recruiters. They like to recruit students that have graduated from the Ivys. My sister was an Ivy graduate, could not get a job (was working at a bike store post graduation) and joined the Marines. The US military really likes to recruit from the Ivys. She got really, really good assignments. |
Anonymous
You mean OCS? |