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Berkeley Professor Says Even His ‘Outstanding’ Students With 4.0 GPAs Aren’t Getting Any Job Offers — ‘I Suspect This Trend Is Irreversible’ (www.yourtango.com)

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There seems to be a large percentage of recent college graduates who are unemployed.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

Most people don't understand what college is actually for. Most people think college is to learn something and then you make a career out of it. Well, it's not, unless you want to go into academia.

College is a way to socialize and meet other people. This means you need to get into the right crowds and meet the right people. You use this time to do things like internships. What you learn and what your GPA is does not matter to any employer. Who you know, does.

[–] Dkarma 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This, but also internships are HUGE.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I was greedy. I never did any of the internships because the money I made as a delivery driver was orders of magnitude higher than what they were offering. I almost couldn't afford to stop making that kind of money. But I got hella lucky to be in my current position. I often wonder what life would be like had I interned at Cisco or IBM.

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