Anonymous wrote:There are 4 million more jobs than there are people in the workforce. Do you live under a rock OP and haven’t heard of the Great Reshuffle or Talent shortages? Your grad should have a job by now if she has been really trying. My rising sophomore has a paid internship at a Fortune 10 company. She secured it with one virtual interview…

Oh gee, my kid's not as talented as yours is. Count your blessings.

There are 4 million more jobs than there are people in the workforce. Do you live under a rock OP and haven’t heard of the Great Reshuffle or Talent shortages? Your grad should have a job by now if she has been really trying. My rising sophomore has a paid internship at a Fortune 10 company. She secured it with one virtual interview…

If your child cannot find a job after 4 years of College than look inward...it's not the world's fault, it is your kid's fault...they should have chosen and performed better.

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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.

And you are 100 percent wrong. Top law firms in the DMV routinely hire -- and in fact, prefer to hire -- recent college graduates without "certificates" of any kind as paralegals. Here, for example, is the link to Covington's website for paralegal hiring. Covington, by the way, is one of the best known and has long been the largest law firm in the city (I feel compelled to point this out only because, given your response, you probably don't know the DC legal market very well). Covington is far from unique in its approach to paralegal hiring among big firms in this city.

https://www.cov.com/en/careers/staff/paralegals

I see about 25 percent of kids graduate with no jobs- business, data analytics, computer science tend to have offers before they graduate. Parents often use connections to help them find work. What does your kid want to do? Teaching is an option and they always need people. Law school? Walmart is now paying 200K for college grads to run stores.

Im sure you have thought about this before this point, what was her plan with a history degree? If going into business, its tough because she likely has no actual business skills (programming, finance, etc) but this is a well known issue for LA degrees so you must have had some sort of inkling of what they planned to do long term?

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Anonymous wrote:It's been what two weeks?

I think most kids have a job nailed down by now.

Do you think companies are just chomping at the bit for a history major? McDonalds is hiring.

It’s *champing* at the bit.

DP. "Chomping" is also proper usage. https://www.npr.org/sections/memmos/2016/06/09/605796769/chew-on-this-is-it-chomping-or-champing

Anonymous wrote:What kind of job did she expect as a history major?

DP. My DC is a history major and works as an intelligence analyst.

Four. Also given the fact that OP has not been back to answer whether DD had any internships. My DS is a rising second year at UVA, prospective double major politics/history and has a congressional internship this summer.

Tons of jobs out there yes even for a history major but she has to have some idea of what she wants to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone is in the same boat as my DD? History major from UVA without any jobs offered so far.

What did your DD do over the last three summers? Unless she was going into a history PhD program or getting a masters in education, she surely must have been thinking about internships and what would position her best for whatever type of work she wants to do?

Plenty of kids didn't. Especially during covid. They work at their part-time jobs, relax, take an extra course. Not everyone is a gunner for their careers. And it's fine. She just needs to look for a job now.

My employer canceled summer internship programs in 2020 and scaled back considerably in 2021. All these people acting like times have been normal these past 2.5 years and antagonizing the OP. Sheesh!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 I guess only two of us saw through it!

Three.

Career Centers doing a huge amount of outreach to make sure students use them and get jobs. Colleges know how to do this.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone is in the same boat as my DD? History major from UVA without any jobs offered so far.

What did your DD do over the last three summers? Unless she was going into a history PhD program or getting a masters in education, she surely must have been thinking about internships and what would position her best for whatever type of work she wants to do?

Plenty of kids didn't. Especially during covid. They work at their part-time jobs, relax, take an extra course. Not everyone is a gunner for their careers. And it's fine. She just needs to look for a job now.

What kind of job did she expect as a history major?

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 I guess only two of us saw through it!

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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.

Most law firms hire paralegals either directly out of college, or with a certificate.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone is in the same boat as my DD? History major from UVA without any jobs offered so far.

What did your DD do over the last three summers? Unless she was going into a history PhD program or getting a masters in education, she surely must have been thinking about internships and what would position her best for whatever type of work she wants to do?