Everyone can help you. Especially our alumni.
As we have been discussing this season, the peripatetic and mysterious economy is scrambling all the “usual” springtime predictions about the kind of job market that graduating seniors are headed toward. This year, we’re witnessing the economy “behaving” (maybe misbehaving?) in ways that are hard to interpret. As I’ve noted in my previous two columns, the massive recent tech layoffs may or may not have much bearing on the conditions that college students and recent grads will face when the semester ends in a few months.
Many remain positive about seniors’ prospects, one of whom is Valerie Workman, chief legal officer at Handshake, who was recently quoted as saying that “as spring gets closer, many soon-to-be grads are leveraging resilient job market data, public salary ranges and other economic indicators to go into the job search feeling empowered.”
And while I personally can’t figure it out, I don’t feel too bad. A recent news story quipped, “even the most seasoned experts can’t quite explain: prominent layoffs are in the news even as unemployment numbers remain historically low, and more than a year of recession warnings have yet to materialize while millions of jobs go unfilled.”
Read the full article on the CCEC blog.
