Anyone hiring Econ grads?

"404 Name Not Found" (404namenotfound) 01/04/2015 at 15:30 • Filed to: None

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E. Julius > 404 Name Not Found 01/04/2015 at 15:34

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I feel your pain

404 Name Not Found > E. Julius 01/04/2015 at 15:38

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I was late to the recruiting cycle. Hoping to land something before graduation in May.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > 404 Name Not Found 01/04/2015 at 15:42

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If you press this button on any honda, honda should hire you.

E. Julius > 404 Name Not Found 01/04/2015 at 15:52

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I'm just searching for internships right now. My girlfriend (also Econ) graduated last month and is still searching for something. Best of luck.

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > 404 Name Not Found 01/04/2015 at 16:06

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I got an Econ degree. My job has nothing to do with it.

Spaceball-Two > 404 Name Not Found 01/04/2015 at 16:27

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Depends on where you are located.

samssun > 404 Name Not Found 01/04/2015 at 16:45

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They're hiring them over other majors. Here's my suggestion: go onto Monster, Indeed, etc, and apply to anything relevant. List them in a spreadsheet, with columns for date applied, firm, position, response date, phone/interview, login/referral code (you'll forget by the time they call you back).

Get up tomorrow and do it again. You should be applying to 5-10 the first few days, but then it'll drop off as you see the same stuff. They key is to set a minimum, like 3 applications a day. Highlight any you hear back from so you know what's moving forward, grey out dead ends.

Once the job sites run dry, pull up the Fortune 500 list and tackle it in sets of 50. Then find those "100 Best Places to Work" type lists, etc. You might only find a couple decent matches on a given list, but forget the odds and just try a few every day instead of letting weeks go by waiting for fresh listings.

After a month when you have 100+ applications, your odds starting getting good. KEEP APPLYING even if you get well into the hiring process, because it can always fall through and you don't want to lose time starting over. When I left my last job, I had 90+ applications over 5 weeks when I heard back from my current place. Added ~25 applications and a second solid offer by the time I finished the month-long hiring process for the first.

404 Name Not Found > samssun 01/04/2015 at 18:19

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This is exactly what I needed. Thank you. I will look into this.

404 Name Not Found > Spaceball-Two 01/04/2015 at 18:19

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Columbus Ohio. Willing to relocate anywhere.

Spaceball-Two > 404 Name Not Found 01/04/2015 at 18:22

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I'm in Seattle. There are a ton of jobs out this way. We didn't really get hurt bad by the economic downturn.

samssun > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 01/04/2015 at 18:53

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Your job may not have anything to do with what your Econ degree, but I bet getting hired did. I knew by sophomore year I didn't want to be an Engineer crunching numbers somewhere, but I view it as a big plus on my resume and happily lord it over the "will there be math on the final?" types with degrees ending in Studies.