UVA grad here. UVA has the most amazing career services and alumni network. She needs to start networking. Reach out to friends and neighbors, use social media, get on LinkedIn. I would hire a UVA grad in a heart beat b/c they have proven themselves in a really hard school - assuming she did well.

My kid is a rising second year at UVA and just got a nice paid internship for the summer. Just have to search, interview well and have transferable skills...pretty easy.

Anonymous wrote:Did she do any internships while in college and does she have an area she is focusing on?

NP.. +1. I found my first job right out of college via an internship, and I went to a no-name C rated state university. What does she want to do, and is she using her alumni network?

Some history majors I know are participating in AmeriCorps and Teach for America.

Pretty sure OP is a troll, trying to get the usual liberal arts-haters to pile on about STEM being “the only viable degree.” So typical.

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Anonymous wrote:sales, non profit, teaching are all paths to jobs. Maybe she should be a summer camp counselor to see if she likes teaching.

At this point, she could start actually subbing or even teaching at any non-public school.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t paralegals need some sort of certificate?

No not at all.

The correct answer is...it depends on the state. It's not 2000 anymore. Most paralegals have certificates/degrees or both.

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people here who are both rude and uninformed. That's a very unattractive combination.

The job market remains white hot despite the stock market turbulence. Good candidates with a good record of undergrad success are getting jobs. Yes a CS major will have options a history major won't but both will get hired.

You "McDonald's! Starbucks!" people are really pathetic and sad. I wonder what made you that way?

Because those people "would never allow their kids to major in Liberal arts/non-stem". They probably force their non-stem kids to attempt a stem major, and I can't imagine anything worse than forcing a kid into CS/Engineering that isn't interested. I want my kid to be happy with life and what they do. Same with pre-med; so many kids when I was in college that were afraid to tell their parents they really didn't want to be pre-med. Cannot imagine going thru what it takes to be an MD if your heart isn't into it; way too much $$$ and years of schooling.
Also cannot imagine the world without history/art history/English/psychology/drama/music majors. We need people from all areas of knowledge. While all of my kids chose something besides just liberal arts, we would have been happy with whatever makes them happy, with the caveat that for some majors you have to work a bit harder "to find the right job" and that means starting that process earlier during college (ie before senior year). It means searching for some type of internship during college to gain experience. There are not lots of job descriptions that advertise for "we need a history major", so you have to make more of an effort to decide what area you want to explore and learn to market yourself a bit more. A CS/Engineer doesn't have to do that quite so much.

Lots of people here who are both rude and uninformed. That's a very unattractive combination.

The job market remains white hot despite the stock market turbulence. Good candidates with a good record of undergrad success are getting jobs. Yes a CS major will have options a history major won't but both will get hired.

You "McDonald's! Starbucks!" people are really pathetic and sad. I wonder what made you that way?

Anonymous wrote:Don’t paralegals need some sort of certificate?

You didn’t need one in the early 2000s at white shoe law firms in NYC. I was hired after graduating from a T20 university.

Anonymous wrote:Proposal writing?
Technical editor?
History teaching at a private that only requires BA in subject, not MAT? Did SFS hire someone in the US?
Teaching English abroad?
Tutoring online?
Writing subject matter for lessons online?
Jamestown/Yorktown/Williamsburg always seem to have openings
Digital archivist?

Good luck to her in her job search

Really almost all is open. What does she want to do and why wasn't she working towards it at UVA with internships.

Did she do any internships while in college and does she have an area she is focusing on?

Anonymous wrote:Don’t paralegals need some sort of certificate?

No not at all.

OMG, calm down everyone. The vast majority of employers are smaller businesses that cannot/ do not hire months before a potential start date. As a former history major, I know there are lots of jobs out there. OP's DD needs to figure out where she wants to live and then start to target possible companies/jobs. Linked in networks can help there. If it's the DC area, try targeting the association world, membership, events, continuing ed or government relations are possible paths.