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Anonymous

04/03/2023 10:59 Subject: Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

Anonymous wrote:OP,

You might send your son to the military recruiters. They like to recruit students that have graduated from the Ivys.

My sister was an Ivy graduate, could not get a job (was working at a bike store post graduation) and joined the Marines.

The US military really likes to recruit from the Ivys. She got really, really good assignments.

You mean OCS?

Anonymous

04/03/2023 10:58 Subject: Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

OP,

You might send your son to the military recruiters. They like to recruit students that have graduated from the Ivys.

My sister was an Ivy graduate, could not get a job (was working at a bike store post graduation) and joined the Marines.

The US military really likes to recruit from the Ivys. She got really, really good assignments.

Anonymous

04/03/2023 10:56 Subject: Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

1%er here.

We hire the kids that have worked grocery, restaurant and landscaping jobs with college degrees.

We look for hustle.

Anonymous

04/03/2023 10:40 Subject: Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give him some time and encourage ment.

He's 22 and never even had a part time job. Time for tough love. He's had time and support and chosen not to use it.

This. Why the heck did the parents not require a job, any job!, during summer breaks. I hire interns and never consider one that has zero work experience. Doesn't need to be at all related to the field (we get that from classes and projects) but I want to know you have experienced showing up on time, doing a job that's sometimes tedious, interacting with customers (we're a client-service business), getting along with coworkers.

I don't even want 'relevant' experience for interns because half the time it means sitting in dad's office surfing. If a kid has held retail, grocery, restaurant, landscaping... jobs and lasted for multiple years or even a whole summer, I know that they can at least show up on time and won't think they're too good for a task.

Anonymous

04/03/2023 10:36 Subject: Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give him some time and encourage ment.

He's 22 and never even had a part time job. Time for tough love. He's had time and support and chosen not to use it.

This. Why the heck did the parents not require a job, any job!, during summer breaks. I hire interns and never consider one that has zero work experience. Doesn't need to be at all related to the field (we get that from classes and projects) but I want to know you have experienced showing up on time, doing a job that's sometimes tedious, interacting with customers (we're a client-service business), getting along with coworkers.

Top colleges have stopped requiring work study for students on FA. All FA is in grants now, and all the campus jobs go to unionized adult employees. I think that was a bad turn of events. The rich kids, it doesn’t matter if they have work experience or not, they’ll get hired by their dad’s firm.

Anonymous

04/03/2023 10:31 Subject: Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give him some time and encourage ment.

He's 22 and never even had a part time job. Time for tough love. He's had time and support and chosen not to use it.

This. Why the heck did the parents not require a job, any job!, during summer breaks. I hire interns and never consider one that has zero work experience. Doesn't need to be at all related to the field (we get that from classes and projects) but I want to know you have experienced showing up on time, doing a job that's sometimes tedious, interacting with customers (we're a client-service business), getting along with coworkers.

Anonymous

04/03/2023 10:00 Subject: Re:Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Exactly what qualifications or experience would make a temp agency want to take this person on?

When I graduated from an Ivy League school and had no full time job offer lined up, I interviewed with a few different temp agencies in my home town and they were thrilled to hire me. I could type well; I had great grammar, spelling and punctuation. I spoke English. I learned quickly.

I don't recommend working for a temp agency, but getting hired was not a problem.

In DC, temp agencies do place a lot of people with great jobs. I've hired a bunch of temps as full time employees. They were recent college grads, oftentimes taking off a couple years before going back to graduate school.

This is what I did coming out of a slac. The first placement I got allowed temps access to internal job postings and I ended up getting a job that I wanted after a couple of weeks of temping.

Anonymous

04/03/2023 09:43 Subject: Re:Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

Anonymous wrote:OP refuses to state his major or GPA.

Or even what field he is interested in, which makes it hard to help him.

Anonymous

04/03/2023 09:42 Subject: Re:Ivy League son is graduating next month with a rubbish GPA and no FT job offer

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Exactly what qualifications or experience would make a temp agency want to take this person on?

When I graduated from an Ivy League school and had no full time job offer lined up, I interviewed with a few different temp agencies in my home town and they were thrilled to hire me. I could type well; I had great grammar, spelling and punctuation. I spoke English. I learned quickly.

I don't recommend working for a temp agency, but getting hired was not a problem.