College grads find themselves unemployed

 The rough economy effects even the most secure fields.

The average college student graduates owing approximately 19,000 dollars in student loans and 2,700 dollars in credit card debt.

Up to ten percent of students owe as much as $7,000 upon their graduation.

BYU-Idaho students are no exception. Between 40-60 percent of BYU-Idaho students are in some form of debt for school, and the eventuality of graduating and paying off that debt becomes a more and more abstract concept as the job market continues to suffer.

According to collegeaftermath.com “There is very little in life more discouraging than spending thousands and thousands of dollars on an education only to find no one willing to give you a job and a chance.”

More and more graduates are finding themselves squarely in this category. Only 19.7 percent of college graduates who applied for jobs in 2009 are actually employed in their intended field today.

Although the statistics looks grim, all is not lost.

“Flexibility is the most important characteristic when on the job hunt” said Brian Decker, a “head hunter” located in Seattle Washington. “Students who are multi faceted are the only ones who can hope to have any kind of stability, or employment potential”  

Finding a job is not easy in our current economic recession, and those students loans seem to continually hang over the heads of all those with an impending graduation and therefore launch into what students often refer to as “the real world.”

“Whatever situation you find yourself in, the important thing is to be willing and able to step back and take a good look at the big picture. Remembering what you’ve accomplished thus far, reminding yourself of how young you are, and realizing that nothing is permanent” said collegeaftermath.com