Students are doing something, perhaps inadvertently, to thwart the uncertainty that awaits them in the job market. Unfortunately, or perhaps ironically, it’s creating challenges later on down the line in looking for work.
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Noticing another trend in working with students and recent graduates, I’m seeing that their majors are multifaceted, that they’re double majoring, triple majoring, multiple minors, taking a ton of courses outside the major.
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And at first blush, this is just pretty cool, right?
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Lots of lots of interests that people are following through on, but I think there’s more going on.
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I think people that are studying right now recognize the uncertainty of the future and are hedging their bets as best they can.
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They’re throwing everything they can at the wall cause they don’t know what’s going to stick.
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So I’ll see a chemical engineer that is also taking data science and those two things can go together certainly, but I’m even seeing far reaching things like.
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An economics major coming with like plant science or something.
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So you know, the the students are recognizing we’ve got a I, we don’t know where that’s going.
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We’ve got a political future that regardless of what team you’re on, you can agree we have no idea really what’s going to go on there.
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And then with the job market, it’s very difficult, competitive.
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They know this, there’s climate change and the the younger you are, the more you’re going to care about that, the more that’s going to be looming on the horizon.
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So I just think this, this idea of following multiple interests is pretty strategic, if unconscious, still very strategic, but there is a problem with it.
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That I’m seeing come to fruition, and that’s when it comes time to look for work.
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And this is on the resume.
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This multifaceted aspect doesn’t necessarily work for everyone.
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You can make it work, but for the most part, if somebody realizes I want to go into software engineering, but I have a chemical engineering degree with a minor in software engineering, you become you, you can look scattered.
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And that can be difficult.
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And with a resume, nobody wants to try to figure you out.
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They want you to tell them, you know, who you are and what you can do for them.
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So there’s this schism between like getting all this stuff to try to protect yourself, but then when you look at work, it’s getting in the way.
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So my thought there is certainly I can help with something like that.
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That’s a fun challenge is figuring out how do you steer the resume in One Direction, maybe have a couple of resumes, but I’m just pointing it out.
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It’s I think we’re going to see more of it and I’m glad that this new generation has a lot of things they’re interested in.
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But there is, there is a drawback when it comes to.
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Looking for work, unless you kind of have the touch to figure out how to show a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
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But it’s not easy.
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So anyway, I give a nod to the younger generations.
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Keep your head up.
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Keep working.
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Let me know if you need some help.
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Cheerios.
