Contributing to the problem is many young adults I know (kids of friends and colleagues, our sitters) graduate from college with very little real work experience because they spent their free time and summers in academic, sports and other extracurricular pursuits. I’ve asked many colleagues (government agencies) what their kids are doing this summer or where they’re working and discovers very few had regular jobs. My colleagues didn’t want them to have to work like they did or felt as if their kids are too good to work fast food and retail jobs.

When I was a hiring manager (entry level IT, help desk and sales for well known media company) of recent college grads, I eliminated candidates with no work experience and often hired candidates who worked retail or restaurants through college because I knew they could hustle and had drive (and I was right).

An Oracle employee told me that these listings do not appear on their public or internal listings. This not only perpetuates the anti-US citizen PERM green card scam, he says it stops US employees from seeing new pay rates! They pay H-1Bs MORE and HIDE IT.

Anonymous wrote:Where are these plentiful jobs? Do you know a single graduate from 2025?

Law enforcement.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1282003.page

Anonymous wrote:For Recent Grads, there is a great website to find tech jobs

Read about it -> https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-jobs-now-american-workers-green-cards-2041404

Go to -> https://www.jobs.now/

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For Recent Grads, there is a great website to find tech jobs

Read about it -> https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-jobs-now-american-workers-green-cards-2041404

Go to -> https://www.jobs.now/

Anonymous wrote:Americans have always been privileged. I am from Africa and the unemployment rate for college grad has to be around 80%, I don't even think we have an official statistics. I graduated with double bachelor's degree in math and physics and I couldn't find even a teaching job..I went into a deep depression because I felt I did everything right graduated fifth in my class and nothing to show for. Then miraculously I won the green card lottery. It took only 3 months for me to find a job in the US. I was shocked. Now in fairness this was 3 years ago, so if it was in today's economy I probably would be struggling as well.

But I think American college graduates are starting to experience what a lot of college graduates around the world go through year after year. What worries me most is that there is such a high expectation in this country that if you go to college, get a degree, then a job will be ready for you eventually. I think we may have to reset expectations.

If we do that, it means we are expecting that we are no longer exceptional.

Americans have always been privileged. I am from Africa and the unemployment rate for college grad has to be around 80%, I don't even think we have an official statistics. I graduated with double bachelor's degree in math and physics and I couldn't find even a teaching job..I went into a deep depression because I felt I did everything right graduated fifth in my class and nothing to show for. Then miraculously I won the green card lottery. It took only 3 months for me to find a job in the US. I was shocked. Now in fairness this was 3 years ago, so if it was in today's economy I probably would be struggling as well.

But I think American college graduates are starting to experience what a lot of college graduates around the world go through year after year. What worries me most is that there is such a high expectation in this country that if you go to college, get a degree, then a job will be ready for you eventually. I think we may have to reset expectations.

It isn’t just H-1B’s taking away STEM jobs frim Americans it is a program called OPT where international stem students can work in the US after graduating for three years. Employers don’t far to contribute to social security payments for these workers do they save 8% hiring them.

STEM OPT is an abbreviation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Optional Practical Training. After the successful graduation of international students, they are allowed to stay in the United States for 12 months to work under the OPT program. The U.S. government also provides an extension of 24 months to anyone who has a degree in the STEM field, which is called the STEM OPT Extension. This is to give more time to students for practical experience and get into long-term employment since some companies may sponsor H1B visas.

According to the 2024 SEVIS by the Numbers report, published by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a total of 194,554 international students were actively working in the United States under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program during calendar year 2024. This reflects a notable 21% rise from the previous year.

As reported by Financial Express, Amazon was at the top with 5,379 jobs, making it the largest employer of OPT students that year. Tesla came next with around 1,170 jobs, followed by Goldman Sachs, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, each bringing on board over 1,000 OPT participants.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop blaming the job market! Trump is making jobs plentiful again for those who are skilled and willing to contribute to society. Teach your children to hustle!

I dont know about your kids but mine aren’t willing to work at Alligator Alcatraz or to cover their faces and pick up random people on the street who will be shipped to a foreign jail just because they are brown and could be undocumented. Doesn’t matter
how much the pay is. Morality matters too.

Must be nice to be rich. 50k sign in to be ICE I sign up in a minute if unemployed with a wife, kids and mortgage

+1

There is nothing immoral about enforcing the law. I salute the men and women of ICE.

The job market is RED HOT for right type of jobs and ICE COLD wrong type of jobs.

That is issue.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop blaming the job market! Trump is making jobs plentiful again for those who are skilled and willing to contribute to society. Teach your children to hustle!

I dont know about your kids but mine aren’t willing to work at Alligator Alcatraz or to cover their faces and pick up random people on the street who will be shipped to a foreign jail just because they are brown and could be undocumented. Doesn’t matter
how much the pay is. Morality matters too.

Must be nice to be rich. 50k sign in to be ICE I sign up in a minute if unemployed with a wife, kids and mortgage

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Things will get better after Mr. T is out of office. He is intentionally wrecking the DMV economy.

PLEASE HEART ATTACK....
or do we need to wait 4 years?

You could start by voting in the mid-terms. But this does seem to be a lot of self-inflicted damages. Companies don't want to invest because of the ever-changing environment on tariffs. Inflation is high, but unlikely to drop given the shenanigans around Trump's Fed appointees.

Anonymous wrote:Things will get better after Mr. T is out of office. He is intentionally wrecking the DMV economy.

PLEASE HEART ATTACK....
or do we need to wait 4 years?

Anonymous wrote:Stop blaming the job market! Trump is making jobs plentiful again for those who are skilled and willing to contribute to society. Teach your children to hustle!

I dont know about your kids but mine aren’t willing to work at Alligator Alcatraz or to cover their faces and pick up random people on the street who will be shipped to a foreign jail just because they are brown and could be undocumented. Doesn’t matter how much the pay is. Morality matters too.

Things will get better after Mr. T is out of office. He is intentionally wrecking the DMV economy.