I'm afraid that I'm going to be another Reggie. Facing unemployment after graduation. I need advice

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

Get your cdls do a man’s job

 

[Mister_DoItNice]

If all else fails you could apply for air traffic controller school. Applications open starting Monday

I don’t think the FAA would accept a candidate that was diagnosed with autism.

 

[Absolut]

Get a roommate or 2. Plenty of places hiring to stay on your feet just have to suck it up for a year or 2 and roommates help keep costs down

 

[Silver Surfer]

Go to a boot camp for software development....save yourself the trouble

 

[jwall123]

You could just go to grad school actually and delay your first job until you have a masters and you’re more qualified. You could get an MBA or some social science MA. If you can’t find a job, that may be the way to go. Take the required tests and see if you qualify. It can’t hurt.

I like this approach. Delay things a bit by getting your masters. Go to a decent B school and get your network going there. Professors know ppl. Someone else also said take the research route. If you find the right school/researcher/professor, you may find a topic directly or tangentially related to your interests and take that as an in for some dollars. shyt that could parlay into a completely different career.

I give away money to nonprofits now at a foundation. Didn’t study to do this in college or grad school but my MPH completely positions me to do it.

 

[jwall123]

You don't sound like you got that dog in you. I graduated with no job *STEM though* but I was hungry. Your peers getting PR jobs have Youtube channels and are influencers on Social Media. They eat sleep breath that life.

Also what is too much pride to move back with your parents? Young nikkas man.

My best advice is grad school. You can delay growing up for 2 more years. Hopefully you had a good gpa.

Yo, I can help you think about some grad schools and possibly get in even with a poor gpa (I did, after failing at 2 colleges and doing extremely well at the 3rd college… story for another day). If you take that route, hit my inbox. @JadeB life ain’t over. You just need to strategize, develop a plan and stick with it.

And like @DJSmooth said, leave that pride shyt at home and live with pops. It doesn’t have to be forever.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

What kind of jobs does a degree in public relations qualify you for?

 

[Apprentice]

Stop listening to these nikkas who say u have a worthless degree, they jus talkin

U might need to look into grad school, it’s obviously too late this cycle, but the next could be helpful

 

[Apprentice]

I want to go to grad school but I don't know what to major in. PR is mostly a bachelor's thing so I can't really continue with that. That may be what's best for me

U can go to an assortment of programs

U could do sports admin, business admin etc etc

U can even apply to law school

 

[Art Barr]

I'm graduating in a couple weeks and I have no job lined up. For context, I'm graduating with a bachelor’s in Public Relations and I applied to over 200 PR and advertising jobs since February and I only got three interviews in which nothing materialized from. I went to my university career center, got my resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn reviewed and everyone said it was fine. I also attended a seminar for networking and nothing came out of it.

I began looking for jobs not related to my field. I looked into being a teacher and almost began my certificate of teaching until I changed my mind last minute because of the fact that I had no passion to be a teacher. And you're going to need passion to teach little Jimmy for peanuts. I thought about being an insurance agent and applied but nothing came out of it. I even looked into joining the military but I don't think I can get in with an autism diagnosis.

I work at my university's library making minimum wage and I have until the end of the summer to work there. I don't know how I can pay rent by then. I can't live with my mother due to unrelated reasons and my father lives all the way back in Ohio which I can't swallow my pride to move back there after 5 years in California and move back in with him. I'm nervous and at my wit's end.

Write and format your own resume.
Do not listen to resume builders on format or scope. Do it yourself.

Go beadt mode to the point if bodily fatigue doing online applications.
Up your typing speed from 60 to 90 plus using typing apps.
Stay in shape.


Good luck.

You should have tried to get hired during the pandemic in your field.

Gambled in yourself just a bit and then went back to school.
Yet don't worry about that because the pandemic was difficult for everyone to figure out naturally. Just keep active and apply to anything. Don't say fukk your field entirely. Yet think of other ways you can do project management from having a degree and get a salary. At this point just get a salary about 70k at least.

Anywhere at anything.
Then when you go for your industry after you get a salary anywhere. Sculpt your narrative in your resume. Plus most importantly your content during your job interview To make yourself marketable back where you wanna be.


Good luck.

I was black balled for twenty two years and back in my industry.

So you can do this. Just do not give up.


Art Barr

 

[voiture]

Swallow your pride. Go back to Ohio, get a decent job and come back after a few years when you are established. You may never even come back once you find out your money might go further in Ohio.

Another option is to get a roommate and a job not related to your field which is always hiring ( fast food etc..) while looking for a permanent job on the side.

 

[13473]

Haven't thought about being a substitute. You don't need a special certificate for that

a degree will do. just apply on your state site & u will be at least making more than minimum wage. it'll hold u over while u jobhunt.

 

[JadeB]

Serious Question for you breh. I mean this in total sincerity. But you are nigerian , right? How did you parents NOT try to push you into the big 4? (Med/law/eng/allied-health)


Based on my time in college, its incredibly rare to see a nigerian or any of the wealthier african nationals(kenyan, ghanian, south
Afr) go pure humanities like public relations. In fact the only deviation i saw was stuff like accounting in the bussiness school.





But , regarding your search for ad firms; that will be tough because the industry is cutting back due to rising interest rates and fewer advertisers pushing new products. Hiring freezes all over the place. The industry booms when the overall economy is booming, and currently its a bust. Have you considered applying to the Foreign service? Ideally an internship with an FSO office, followed by a full aplication to that department?


Id suggest applying for a felllowship or grad school but you are kinda late for this year’s cycle.

My parents just wanted me to get a degree in something since they found out that I'm bad at math which gets STEM out of the picture.

I figured out that ad agencies are hard to get through these days. Foreign Service sounds interesting, especially with the benefits and the opportunity to travel. I want to get into grad school, I just need to find out what I could pursue in

 

[JadeB]

I recommend people right out of college to look into finance/banking. Many places can’t find qualified people and having a bachelor’s should at minimum get you in the door.

Also, your degree choice doesn’t always matter. It just shows companies you’re able to stay on task for a certain number of years and complete something.

Banking/finance involves math which I do poorly in

 

[JadeB]

Yeah all that. At the end of the day most people either get lucky or have shyt already lined up for them by their families/connections.

It’s about who you know. fukk this world.

Indeed. It's not fair at all