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[font=Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif]Good read for those about to graduate from HS or those in College/University about to graduate. [/font]
[font=Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif]Associated Press – Mon, Apr 23, 2012[/font]
(AP/The Blaze) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rudewelcome to the world of work.
A weak labor market already has left half of young collegegraduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully usetheir skills and knowledge.
Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasinglyscraping by in lower-wage jobs – waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk orreceptionist, for example – and that’s confounding their hopes a degree wouldpay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans.
An analysis of government data conducted for The AssociatedPress lays bare the highly uneven prospects for holders of bachelor’s degrees.
While there’s strong demand in science, education and healthfields, arts and humanities flounder. Median wages for those with bachelor’s degrees are down from 2000, hitby technological changes that are eliminating midlevel jobs such as banktellers. Most future job openings areprojected to be in lower-skilled positions such as home health aides, who canprovide personalized attention as the U.S. population ages.
Taking underemployment into consideration, the job prospectsfor bachelor’s degree holders fell last year to the lowest level in more than adecade.
“I don‘t even know what I’m looking for,
[font=Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif]Associated Press – Mon, Apr 23, 2012[/font]
(AP/The Blaze) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rudewelcome to the world of work.
A weak labor market already has left half of young collegegraduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully usetheir skills and knowledge.
Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasinglyscraping by in lower-wage jobs – waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk orreceptionist, for example – and that’s confounding their hopes a degree wouldpay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans.
An analysis of government data conducted for The AssociatedPress lays bare the highly uneven prospects for holders of bachelor’s degrees.
While there’s strong demand in science, education and healthfields, arts and humanities flounder. Median wages for those with bachelor’s degrees are down from 2000, hitby technological changes that are eliminating midlevel jobs such as banktellers. Most future job openings areprojected to be in lower-skilled positions such as home health aides, who canprovide personalized attention as the U.S. population ages.
Taking underemployment into consideration, the job prospectsfor bachelor’s degree holders fell last year to the lowest level in more than adecade.
“I don‘t even know what I’m looking for,
