Class of 2026 Grads Jobs

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Anonymous wrote:One child is a '25 Cornell grad, and he is still jobless after a year of searching. DD is about to graduate from Cornell, and she is still searching for a job for the past nine months. She was offered a full-time position after her internship, but it was rescinded due to company-wide layoff. Both are in STEM field. It is absolutely awful out there.

Is the “25 grad underemployed or no job at all? My ‘26 is seeing all the stories of ‘25 grads still looking and I am wondering if they are working but not in the field of their degree.

My son graduated in '25. Several friends are still looking and their only employment is substitute teaching and door dash.

Major? College? Did he have internships during college?

Variety of colleges and majors, yes most had internships.

DS - data science major at a public U - graduated with a job but was one of the few in his friend group to do so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:this thread is awful - depressing me to start the day - so many full pay kids under or unemployed. That wasn’t the agreement!

Top schools are well worth full pay, no job shortage there.
Every 2025 from kid’s ivy and friends of theirs at similar level schools have jobs, besides the ones who went the med/law/phD route. Most of the 2026s have jobs or are finalizing now.
The students who are looking from 2025 went to schools outside the T30ish.

DP. That’s not been our experience at all. The kids we know who are employed or have recently received offers attended state schools. Many of those who graduated from Ivies are still searching.

My '25 Cornell kid has been searching for his first job for the past 18 months without much luck. My '26 Cornell kid has been searching for her first job for the past 12 months. She has three different internships in her freshman, sophomore, and junior year: However, she will graduate next month without having a job. FWIW, both are in stem field.

What exact major?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many tentative job offers will be rescinded before the start date. Our quant firm has made offers for returning students but we are going to bring in only 1 of the 5 that we extended tentative offers to. That notice wont go out until a couple of weeks before the start date. Too much volatility in the market.

wonder if the kids all believed the offers were indeed “tentative”

+ 1. They need to be informed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Many tentative job offers will be rescinded before the start date. Our quant firm has made offers for returning students but we are going to bring in only 1 of the 5 that we extended tentative offers to. That notice wont go out until a couple of weeks before the start date. Too much volatility in the market.

wonder if the kids all believed the offers were indeed “tentative”

+ 1. They need to be informed.

That's cruel not to tell the kids until a few weeks before the start date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of tech hiring still happening along the Metro Silver Line in NoVA and along 28. Blue Origin, Kuiper, Amazon, NG/Orbital Sciences, and others all are actively hiring.

(If hired at Amazon, then work hard, learn everything you can, get experience for your resume, and keep looking for a better job. Remember that any entry-level tech job is better than having no tech job.)

With a STEM degree and US citizenship (not green card or other visa), look at USAjobs.gov. Several parts if IC and DoD/DoW are actively hiring new grads with STEM backgrounds.

I also would work whatever network you have (church, sports, relatives, or other) to find something. Lots of government sector places are looking for people to hire as contractors to replace the (lower cost) civil service people who took the fork last year. Those jobs often do not get advertised but they do exist.

Just a word on this: it is not tech recruiting season. You’re likely going to hear nothing from these jobs and they’re mostly looking for mid-level or senior roles if they’re currently hiring. Stay proactive in the fall

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is awful - depressing me to start the day - so many full pay kids under or unemployed. That wasn’t the agreement!

Top schools are well worth full pay, no job shortage there.
Every 2025 from kid’s ivy and friends of theirs at similar level schools have jobs, besides the ones who went the med/law/phD route. Most of the 2026s have jobs or are finalizing now.
The students who are looking from 2025 went to schools outside the T30ish.

DP. That’s not been our experience at all. The kids we know who are employed or have recently received offers attended state schools. Many of those who graduated from Ivies are still searching.

Same here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many tentative job offers will be rescinded before the start date. Our quant firm has made offers for returning students but we are going to bring in only 1 of the 5 that we extended tentative offers to. That notice wont go out until a couple of weeks before the start date. Too much volatility in the market.

wonder if the kids all believed the offers were indeed “tentative”

+ 1. They need to be informed.

Awful. PP delivered that line very coldly, so I feel bad for these GenX when these employers have no sense of duty or ethics.

[Anonymous]

OOPS ^^ GenZ obvs... Sounds like pp is the AWFUL GenX.

--GenX

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many tentative job offers will be rescinded before the start date. Our quant firm has made offers for returning students but we are going to bring in only 1 of the 5 that we extended tentative offers to. That notice wont go out until a couple of weeks before the start date. Too much volatility in the market. [/quote

No decency to tell the poor kids the right away so they can look elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is awful - depressing me to start the day - so many full pay kids under or unemployed. That wasn’t the agreement!

Top schools are well worth full pay, no job shortage there.
Every 2025 from kid’s ivy and friends of theirs at similar level schools have jobs, besides the ones who went the med/law/phD route. Most of the 2026s have jobs or are finalizing now.
The students who are looking from 2025 went to schools outside the T30ish.

DP. That’s not been our experience at all. The kids we know who are employed or have recently received offers attended state schools. Many of those who graduated from Ivies are still searching.

Anecdotal.
The data at every ivy/T10 that lists it has under 5% unemployed at 6mos post grad. The flagships I pulled up are are much worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is awful - depressing me to start the day - so many full pay kids under or unemployed. That wasn’t the agreement!

Top schools are well worth full pay, no job shortage there.
Every 2025 from kid’s ivy and friends of theirs at similar level schools have jobs, besides the ones who went the med/law/phD route. Most of the 2026s have jobs or are finalizing now.
The students who are looking from 2025 went to schools outside the T30ish.

DP. That’s not been our experience at all. The kids we know who are employed or have recently received offers attended state schools. Many of those who graduated from Ivies are still searching.

Same here.

+2
State school grads are very much in demand by employers. I think people are wising up about Ivy grads.

[Anonymous]

My 2026 graduate civil engineer/pre architecture has a project engineering job with a construction management company. It is a return offer from where he interned last summer. He picked merit aid over an ivy four years ago and we are thrilled with the outcome. Plus plenty of funds left for grad school if and when he needs it.

[Anonymous]

Is teach for American still a thing? Was super population for grads during the 2008 recession. We always need teachers and that’s a job AI can’t fully do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is awful - depressing me to start the day - so many full pay kids under or unemployed. That wasn’t the agreement!

Top schools are well worth full pay, no job shortage there.
Every 2025 from kid’s ivy and friends of theirs at similar level schools have jobs, besides the ones who went the med/law/phD route. Most of the 2026s have jobs or are finalizing now.
The students who are looking from 2025 went to schools outside the T30ish.

DP. That’s not been our experience at all. The kids we know who are employed or have recently received offers attended state schools. Many of those who graduated from Ivies are still searching.

Same here.

+2
State school grads are very much in demand by employers. I think people are wising up about Ivy grads.

Lol.. I think the Ivy grads will be fine!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this thread is awful - depressing me to start the day - so many full pay kids under or unemployed. That wasn’t the agreement!

Top schools are well worth full pay, no job shortage there.
Every 2025 from kid’s ivy and friends of theirs at similar level schools have jobs, besides the ones who went the med/law/phD route. Most of the 2026s have jobs or are finalizing now.
The students who are looking from 2025 went to schools outside the T30ish.

DP. That’s not been our experience at all. The kids we know who are employed or have recently received offers attended state schools. Many of those who graduated from Ivies are still searching.

My '25 Cornell kid has been searching for his first job for the past 18 months without much luck. My '26 Cornell kid has been searching for her first job for the past 12 months. She has three different internships in her freshman, sophomore, and junior year: However, she will graduate next month without having a job. FWIW, both are in stem field.

Ummm ….the 25 grad is doing something wrong either with the search or the interview process..