About to graduate from the University of Michigan Ross school and still jobless

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Anonymous wrote:This is an unfortunate situation for the OP’s son. It also highlights the advantage of attending a smaller school like Bucknell or Colgate with a strong Greek system and a tight alumni base that isn’t built solely around sports. Your career network has way more tentacles at those schools. The OP mentioned that career services was no help, but what about fraternity connections or reaching out to alums eager to hire him simply because he's a Wolverine? My guess is OP didn’t mention those options because they weren’t available. There’s a reason very few kids in business or finance majors at Bucknell or Colgate graduate jobless, and it isn’t just because of the academic reputation. Attending one of those schools, joining a top-tier fraternity, building a relationship with career services early, and tapping into the alumni network is basically a cheat code for stacking cheese right out of college.

I would add Lehigh to this as well.

OP, did your student have an internship the summer before senior year? If not, that seems like a waste of a Ross spot.

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My sis in law graduated from Ross a few years ago with an accounting degree and had tons of job offers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an unfortunate situation for the OP’s son. It also highlights the advantage of attending a smaller school like Bucknell or Colgate with a strong Greek system and a tight alumni base that isn’t built solely around sports. Your career network has way more tentacles at those schools. The OP mentioned that career services was no help, but what about fraternity connections or reaching out to alums eager to hire him simply because he's a Wolverine? My guess is OP didn’t mention those options because they weren’t available. There’s a reason very few kids in business or finance majors at Bucknell or Colgate graduate jobless, and it isn’t just because of the academic reputation. Attending one of those schools, joining a top-tier fraternity, building a relationship with career services early, and tapping into the alumni network is basically a cheat code for stacking cheese right out of college.

Stop with the Bucknell/Colgate trolling. You could have made your point without it. Instead you look like a childish idiot. You so funny.

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You're idiots if you thought the career outcomes would be that different between schools. It's ALWAYS about hustle, connections, and luck. And not having a Trump presidency about to throw us into a depression. The job market is terrible. I'm sure you've heard countless stories about offers getting rescinded or pushed back because companies are not spending or getting funding pulled. The stock market is doing terribly, so if he's finance, then you're SOL. All the kids we know with great offers were from internships summer before senior year. And most of those kids got the great internships through connections. And most are accounting (severe shortage).

Just like pervious generations, he'll need to get creative until the economy picks up. Or go to law school. lol

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an unfortunate situation for the OP’s son. It also highlights the advantage of attending a smaller school like Bucknell or Colgate with a strong Greek system and a tight alumni base that isn’t built solely around sports. Your career network has way more tentacles at those schools. The OP mentioned that career services was no help, but what about fraternity connections or reaching out to alums eager to hire him simply because he's a Wolverine? My guess is OP didn’t mention those options because they weren’t available. There’s a reason very few kids in business or finance majors at Bucknell or Colgate graduate jobless, and it isn’t just because of the academic reputation. Attending one of those schools, joining a top-tier fraternity, building a relationship with career services early, and tapping into the alumni network is basically a cheat code for stacking cheese right out of college.

Stop with the Bucknell/Colgate trolling. You could have made your point without it. Instead you look like a childish idiot. You so funny.

The Bucknell troll must have skipped church this morning. Let the poor little cellar denizen have his moment.

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If he went to Michigan why is he limiting his job search to the DC metro???

And yes, if you or he only wanted to live in the DC area,.I would have been best to go to college in VA, DC, or MD.

He needs to search for more positions in the mid west at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard a lot of these stories. It’s hard to justify a private college in a struggling economy. The job market is so uncertain.

Nah depends upon the student and the college. We know a soon to be Michigan grad who has a great job lined up as do most of the friends. Our own is at an ivy/t10 and they and all of their friends are headed to either top20 law/med/grad programs or desirable jobs. No jobs were through family connections but many through faculty or campus networking. It was well worth the cost to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is he limiting his job search to the DMV? Definitely needs to cast a wider net with a business background.

I think OP, who may well be a troll, was just saying they paid OOS tuition.

Agree this sounds like a troll post. Especially given how many Michigan vs UVA posts/comments there have been lately, as well as “is OOS worth it” posts.

[Anonymous]

More of a macro issue given jobs and internships are being cancelled right now- people who has consulting internships last summer have had those cancelled for example.

Kid needs to cast a wide net and be number in the search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard a lot of these stories. It’s hard to justify a private college in a struggling economy. The job market is so uncertain.

unemployment has been at record lows for 5 years now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an unfortunate situation for the OP’s son. It also highlights the advantage of attending a smaller school like Bucknell or Colgate with a strong Greek system and a tight alumni base that isn’t built solely around sports. Your career network has way more tentacles at those schools. The OP mentioned that career services was no help, but what about fraternity connections or reaching out to alums eager to hire him simply because he's a Wolverine? My guess is OP didn’t mention those options because they weren’t available. There’s a reason very few kids in business or finance majors at Bucknell or Colgate graduate jobless, and it isn’t just because of the academic reputation. Attending one of those schools, joining a top-tier fraternity, building a relationship with career services early, and tapping into the alumni network is basically a cheat code for stacking cheese right out of college.

Stop with the Bucknell/Colgate trolling. You could have made your point without it. Instead you look like a childish idiot. You so funny.

esp since MI has a "strong greek system and tight alumni base"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard a lot of these stories. It’s hard to justify a private college in a struggling economy. The job market is so uncertain.

unemployment has been at record lows for 5 years now

Are you looking for a job right now? It’s ugly out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard a lot of these stories. It’s hard to justify a private college in a struggling economy. The job market is so uncertain.

unemployment has been at record lows for 5 years now

Are you looking for a job right now? It’s ugly out there.

NP. But when they chose the college it was not a bad economy.

Though I actually disagree with this "justify private college" way of looking at things. It is very narrow-minded and short-term in focus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell did he go to Michigan if he was instate for UVA? That makes no sense. That was a dumb decision on your part.

Are you clinically insane? Michigan is solidly a tier above UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell did he go to Michigan if he was instate for UVA? That makes no sense. That was a dumb decision on your part.

Are you clinically insane? Michigan is solidly a tier above UVA.

DP. It’s really not.