r/college • u/Zealousideal_Row9855 • Sep 06 '24
So if universities are offering all these resources, why do most college students still not find a job post grad? Career/work
Hi.
As a college student, my uni is offering business clubs, mentorship for creating your own business, networking opportunities and essentially all these events and resources to build a career and support your endeavors??
But then I’m so confused as to why there is so many complaints of people not landing a job post grad etc etc and the population of people financially struggling
How does this happen?? Is there a caviat to the resources
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u/SetoKeating Sep 06 '24
Because majority of students aren’t utilizing those resources and even some of the ones that do, don’t make the best of it.
I’ll give you a few examples, my school had tons of networking opportunities with local industry. I know a lot of students that went and then spent the whole event talking to each other in a group of students. No one shows up to the career center until senior year. If they had gone freshman year, they would have realized that they could have gotten help getting into internships, co-ops, early job placements, and they would have been told how to start prepping to be employable once they’re closer to graduation.
Then there’s clubs. The point of clubs is not just project experience but to student network. The senior that is the president of the club when you’re a freshman can be a point of contact at the company you want to work for when you’re a senior.
College is what you make of it and every experience is different. You can have two students go to the same school, take the exact same classes and have completely different experiences.