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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Internships on college are critical. Does not matter how you got it. I am hiring for an entry level position and just got a resume from a 2024 grad at the same top 25 school my DS attends (he is a rising senior). She is in the same major and has a nearly perfect GPA. I was shocked that she was still looking for job. Then i looked closer at her resume.  While she has GREAT on campus activities and a great GPA, she has only had one tangentially related internship. By contrast, my DS will soon start his third internship directly in his major field. I guess I’ll eat my words next May if he doesn’t have a job either, but to me, that’s the difference. He looked at her resume and said it’s a problem that she has as many bullet points under her sorority leadership than the one actual work experience. He’s right.

I am in recruiting and absolutely yes, good consistent and related internships can trump being in a more well known school.[/quote]

It is a very challenging job market out there even for grads with multiple internships.  My DS graduates in May '24 with a degree in CS and three CS internships, after his freshman, sophomore and junior, and he still has no offer.  [/quote]

This is very scary to hear!  Do you have any guesses on why your DS hasn't found a job?  Grades, looking for too high a salary, etc?  This is very worrisome [/quote]

DP but it’s because we’ve had years of telling kids the “right” path is CS and there is an oversupply of new grads at the exact time big tech is shedding 1000s of jobs[/quote]

+10000 so this. I have been saying this for a year now. The CS job market is not sustainable at the level it was at when these kids decided that it was the way to six figure salaries right out of school. There are simply more candidates than jobs.[/quote]

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