Economy Fails College Grads

College students across the nation are struggling to find steady employment upon graduation, as Anthony Mason reports. Experts say this trend could continue for years.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cbsepisode
• College
• Student
• Job
• Employment
• Economy
• Recession
• Graduate
• Graduation
• University
• Education
• Bachelor's
• Degree
• Work
• Career

[rfm2ckt]

Bet this makes all the drop-outs feel pretty smart...

[TheVMFA333]

no jobs?  start a war..

[zetsi77]

@TheVMFA333 The Military Industrial complex has many production facilities, the problem is labor is almost unnecessary thanks to Robotic assembly lines. So war in this era will fail to produce a sufficient number of jobs, not to mention you are joking about killing hundreds of thousands of people so we can go back to work....

[zetsi77]

Nothing like erroneous statistics from a major media outlet to help keep the situation confused. In actuality its more like 53% of people 18-25 are unemployed. As well as their cute 5% of graduates being unemployed, the number is more like 22% and of that number, a great many of them are working at places like Starbucks and Sears. Of graduates that were working during their senior year, around 60% of them are still at that job.

[primeholyassasin20]

As Berkeley class of '08, i feel the sentiments going on here. I wasn't a bad student, but i didn't know what i wanted to do, and graduated a bit confused. Some of it was my fault, some of it wasn't but after college i lost momentum and kinda lumbered about here and there. One thing I'd suggest to colleges: fully integrate career management skills into curriculum so that students are better prepared for these hard times.

[prettylyricsmarie]

well at least their internships paid, a lot of them don't pay.

[Cubatraveler]

I know someone my age who dropped out of university (engineering) in the 70s and he is doing better than most engineers especially now with all the layoffs and terminations. Looks like a good move in retrospect. Sometimes just being lucky and being in the right place at the right time is better than all the studying, preparation and hard work you do to get a degree.

[deangelomega]

I am a senior this year. fuck.

[izatt82]

hahahahahahaha damn temp jobs thats exactly what a college grad needs.

[enjoi324]

Dumbass commercials! Damnit! >:(