College Graduate Trends

Recent College Graduates Job Trends

• This graph displays the percentage of jobs with your search terms anywhere in the job listing. Since February 2008, the following has occurred on the website simplyhired.com:
  Recent College Graduate Jobs increased 52%.

• Between 1997 and 2007 enrollment increased from 14.5 million to 18.2 million, a 26 percent increase, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

• Only around one-fifth of all college graduates that sent out resumes were hired, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

• Graduate degree enrollment increased 67 percent between 1985 and 2007.

• Enrollment in doctorate programs increased 18 percent from 1997 to 2007, still a healthy increase.

College grads have figured out that a Bachelor's Degree and an optimistic attitude doesn't necessarily get their foot in the door so these trends have emerged in a broken economy.

Public Safety Career Day

Job Fair Alert!

Date:November 3, 2009

Time:10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Facility: Holiday Inn/Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale Airport
2905 Sheridan St. Hollywood, FL 33020

What is this job fair all about and should you be interested? Well, if public saftey is your thing you'll get a chance to meet with representatives from Law Enforcement agencies that are experiencing a need for intelligent individuals with unquestionable integrity. Due to increasing turnover,(retirement of more experienced employees.) The truth is that people are not waiting around to see what the next decrease in retirements, pensions, and benefits will be. That's fine with receent college grads because it can lead to opportunities for inexperienced yet educated individuals to enter the public safety field. Law Enforcement agencies and agencies that provide public safety such as fire, police and homeland security, need to fill positions at every level to highly experienced. Be the first one there because as you already know, space is limited.

For more information call: 1-877-442-7774

Careers vs Jobs

College graduates are expected to broaden their views on what jobs they are willing to acept due to the economic downturn but this doesn't mean that they should settle for just any job either. Grads should really be concerned with finding a career in which they may have to start small and work their way up while being extremely careful not to fall in the capitalistic trappings of a regular 9am to 5pm job.

• A career is the pursuit of a lifelong ambition or the general course of progression towards lifelong goals.

• A job is an activity through which an individual can earn money. It is a regular activity in exchange of payment.

• A career usually requires special training and or education.

• A job may or may not require some basic level of training and or education.

• A career may not mean stability of work as it encourages one to take risks.

• A job is "safe" as stability of work and income is there.

• A career is long term.

• A job it short term.

The Best Of Jobs & The Worst Of Jobs

CareerCast.com, a new job site, released a study in which they evaluated 200 professions to determine the best and the worst jobs out there. They based their findings on five main criteria inherent to every job: environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress. Here are the results:


The Best
1. Mathematician
2. Actuary
3. Statistician
4. Biologist
5. Software Engineer
6. Computer Systems Analyst
7. Historian
8. Sociologist
9. Industrial Designer
10. Accountant
11. Economist
12. Philosopher
13. Physicist
14. Parole Officer
15. Meteorologist
16. Medical Laboratory Technician
17. Paralegal Assistant
18. Computer Programmer

The Worst
200. Lumberjack
199. Dairy Farmer
198. Taxi Driver
197. Seaman
196. EMT
195. Roofer
194. Garbage Collector
193. Welder
192. Roustabout
191. Ironworker
190. Construction Worker
189. Mail Carrier
188. Sheet Metal Worker
187. Auto Mechanic
186. Butcher
185.Nuclear DecontaminationTech
184. Nurse (LN)
183. Painter

New Job Seeking Strategies

The current job climate is taking its toll mentally on college students. While technology and sciences fields have not been as effected by the economic downturn other professions have been hit pretty hard. Most students will be seeking higher education and broadening their job search as well to include jobs they they wouldn't have considered before.

Job Hunting Tips For Recent College Grads

Unconventional job seeking tips that may rattle college grads at first but are very effective when trying to get your foot in the door.

*Video in use for research purposes only.

Resume Writing Tips

Despite the overwhelming million to one applicants to every one job opening I still feel that there's hope for the young college graduate. Especially if they can do EVERYTHING right. Like a well written resume for one thing. There's a rule that every resume should take into consideration. The three second rule. If your resume does not catch the employers eye within three seconds you're out of luck! There are plenty of free resume writing sites out there.

MoneyInstructor.com is a great website that can help young college graduates start generating wealth at an early stage in the game. They also have some pretty informative and accurate views on resumes writing.

There are three primary types of resumes; the chronological resume, the functional resume, and the targeted resume. Each of these types also has variations.

Which type of resume you create depends on how much experience you have in the industry and in occupation you want to work in.

Chronological resumes: A chronological resume typically lists each job you have held in order, beginning with the most recent. This type works well for the person with several years of relevant experience, especially when the job titles you’ve held show an ever increasing amount of responsibility. The modified chronological resume allows for changing the order in which jobs are presented to highlight those most relevant to the position being sought.