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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you can get away with never having a job before if you are in STEM. If you are in business or law snd never had a job before graduating you are the work équivalent of an adult who has never been on a date.[/quote]

It doesn't hold true for STEM either. If you've never had a real internship, it's going to be tough at graduation. Most engineering students do have good internships, and get offers and certainly contacts and references as a result. But it's as tough for STEM grads without experience as anyone else. But engineering students with internships sophomore and junior year do tend to do well. It's the experience and proving they're smart and a team player that matters. But that's probably pretty universal across all fields.

Graduating from any university without work or significant internship experience after four years is a giant red flag, especially given all the competition out there. That's a trash bin app no matter the college. Even a job scooping ice scream is a huge step up from the willfully unemployed for four years. [/quote]

Hiring manager in STEM here. I am pretty indifferent about prior work experience when hiring entry-level people.

We do care about which upper-level in-major electives the applicant took. We do prefer candidates with a 3.0 or higher GPA. We ask job-applicable questions when interviewing and care about those answers. We care a lot about which work tools (e.g., Matlab, AutoCAD, Matlab) and knowledge (e.g., Verilog or VHDL for FPGAs) the applicant brings to work. [/quote]

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