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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can’t you put clubs or volunteering or something like that on it? [/quote]

He was not in any clubs. He does not volunteer.[/quote]
He needs to start at the very very bottom.  It will be very low pay.  But, I'm thinking hiring managers will see his resume and think, "why is someone who went to Duke applying for this very low level job?". They'd be competing with grads from no name state u (probably with some work experience), and then the HM might think the Duke grad will not be a good fit because they'd be arrogant about being a Duke grad, and think admin work is too good for them.

[b]How does a Duke kid have zero work experience, even an internship? What happened there?[/b][/quote]

This. Huge red flag for a hiring manager. [b]He had to be doing something in high school to be a competitive candidate to get in to Duke. Something went wrong when he went to college. Is there a mental health problem? [/b]

For the resume all he can do at this point is emphasize academic project experiences. Start volunteering and temping.

I've hired new grads and if we're interviewing them a few months after graduation we always ask what they've been doing with their time while job hunting. Nothing/video games is not a good answer. Volunteering, personal projects, temp work are good answers.[/quote]

If he entered college in the fall of 2020, he did not have the typical college experience freshman year.  I also have a kid that entered college in fall of 2020.   There were no club/organization meetings, no parties, no experiences (even in person orientation.)   It was easy for a student to fall into a depression and even when things "opened back up"  in their sophomore year, it might have seemed to daunting to get back out there and participate in things again.[/quote]

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