Starting your career isn't like it used to be. For those of us who are young enough to remember, you don't even know what "used to be" used to be. The reality is when our parents graduated from college things were a lot more simple. You picked a major, young sent your resume, you got an interview. That my friends, was getting a job. Starting a career is an entirely different proposition.
AfterTheResume.com was founded by a young, Generation Yer and former college recruiter who became fed up with meeting so many college students who:
1. Had no idea what they wanted to do with their lives
2. Were going about their job search the old-fashioned way
3. Had mastered poor career etiquette
Young People Becoming Job Hoppers
Maybe the recession is here, but do you want to know what the top worry is among chief financial officers? Recruiting. That's right.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu says the next 10 years will be an employee-driven market, because of a whole host of demographics issues, from boomers leaving the workforce to fewer Generation Yers being interested in corporate life. Its consulting group released a survey of firms this week that identified a shortage of skilled and talented workers as their greatest concern. Young people are in such high demand right now that they start to look sort of savvy when sources such as MTV report only 17 percent of Generation Y is worried about the economy. Take Renee Glowacki. She has an entry level job in Boston, which can't be easy given the cost of living in the city, but she is optimistic things will get better for her.
