Job prospects dwindling for college grads

[Anonymous]

Every day, there's an announcement about how industries are tightening their belts and hiring fewer entry-level workers because of AI. Where exactly are all these kids struggling to get into college going to go after graduation? The number of 2025 graduates still unemployed is kind of crazy, and the news only gets more abysmal coming out of consulting and tech sectors.

[Anonymous]

We need teachers, nurses and mental health professionals. Most of these jobs will not help pay off tons of student loans (though some places have loan forgiveness programs) but they are important, meaningful jobs.

Not everyone needs to be a consultant, investment banker, lawyer, AI whiz, or dermatologist. And not everyone needs to live in their favorite big city.

[Anonymous]

I know a law office that is hiring estate lawyers, an engineering office that is hiring structural engineers and an accounting office that is hiring CPA's.

All are small businesses in Maryland.

They find a lot of prospects don't want to work their schedules/hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need teachers, nurses and mental health professionals. Most of these jobs will not help pay off tons of student loans (though some places have loan forgiveness programs) but they are important, meaningful jobs.

Not everyone needs to be a consultant, investment banker, lawyer, AI whiz, or dermatologist. And not everyone needs to live in their favorite big city.

Lol that's a new one for this forum

[Anonymous]

There are an estimated 600000 to 750000 H1B workers in the United States and more than 1 million students who use or become eligible for OPT each year. These programs create a large supply of foreign labor for roles that often overlap with the entry level positions sought by recent American graduates. Given this scale, policymakers should reconsider or even eliminate these pathways in order to prioritize hiring and career development opportunities for US graduates first, ensuring that public investment in domestic education translates into stronger early career outcomes for citizens.

[Anonymous]

The same place all of the other unemployed grads went when they graduated into a bad job market. Grad school or a different field than what they studied.

[Anonymous]

If you wanted to be a nurse, teacher or mental health professional, most of DCUM should tell their kids to 'eject' out of the admissions rat race and aim for the T150-T300 schools. Let's collectively start promoting that tier of school rather than posting day and night about EDs to the T50 and LACs and such. Otherwise, let's all really think about where these jobs are that these kids who are busting their butts trying to make it to the college of their dreams will get when they graduate from one rat race to the next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every day, there's an announcement about how industries are tightening their belts and hiring fewer entry-level workers because of AI. Where exactly are all these kids struggling to get into college going to go after graduation? The number of 2025 graduates still unemployed is kind of crazy, and the news only gets more abysmal coming out of consulting and tech sectors.

Every day there's a new thread about the abysmal job market for recent college graduates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are an estimated 600000 to 750000 H1B workers in the United States and more than 1 million students who use or become eligible for OPT each year. These programs create a large supply of foreign labor for roles that often overlap with the entry level positions sought by recent American graduates. Given this scale, policymakers should reconsider or even eliminate these pathways in order to prioritize hiring and career development opportunities for US graduates first, ensuring that public investment in domestic education translates into stronger early career outcomes for citizens.

Thank you Stephen Miller. You may now put back on your ski mask and return to your raids with all of the other losers in ICE.

[Anonymous]

Trump is getting rid of all of the immigrants because people complain there are no jobs. So there will be lots of jobs picking crops, mopping floors, cleaning bed pans, doing construction in 100 degree heat, and the like. Will MAGA nation suck it up and take these jobs? Or will they keep complaining that Biden (under whom unemployment was at record lows) is still at fault for everything wrong with this country even though Republicans are fully in charge?

Fatso daddy Trump doesn't want to help you. He is just profiting off your stupidity. Take off your dumb red hats and use your brains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are an estimated 600000 to 750000 H1B workers in the United States and more than 1 million students who use or become eligible for OPT each year. These programs create a large supply of foreign labor for roles that often overlap with the entry level positions sought by recent American graduates. Given this scale, policymakers should reconsider or even eliminate these pathways in order to prioritize hiring and career development opportunities for US graduates first, ensuring that public investment in domestic education translates into stronger early career outcomes for citizens.

+1

I completely agree. As an IT contractor for a federal agency, I can tell you that around 90% of the IT workforce—including roles like helpdesk support, IT infrastructure, and software development—consists of H1B visa holders. I know so many recent computer science graduates from universities like UVA, Virginia Tech, and UMD who are actively searching for jobs, and they would jump at the chance to work as government contractors for major firms. Yet, companies like Leidos, SAIC, BAH, and CACI find ways to sidestep regulations by hiring H1B workers instead of U.S. citizens, even while qualified American CS grads are left unemployed. These big boys work around the rule by subcontracting to other smaller companies. I am incredibly frustrated and pissed off.

[Anonymous]

Engineers are in high demand.

[Anonymous]

The demand for business majors just keeps going up and up. They are increasingly looking to hire graduates with training in finance.

[Anonymous]

Purely anecdotal but my 26 grad at a SLAC and most of their friends that had decent internships after junior years have received return offers

[Anonymous]

Still a shortage of software developers with C/Unix, embedded/real-time systems, and ARM assembly knowledge.