With the national unemployment rate at 9.7 percent, job-hunt anxieties are at all-time highs. Pamela Allen, a program director at the University Career Center, sat down with The Diamondback yesterday to talk about the latest trends in the market and tips for seniors seeking employment.
Lindsay Riebel, a senior accounting and finance major, never doubted her course of study. She never wanted to switch to a more artsy degree, never desired to take more science-driven classes and never craved more writing assignments. And now that a list of the best and worst jobs in the United States ranks the job of an accountant at No.
When Lauren Berger, the self-described “Intern Queen,” graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2006, she hadn’t tallied how many times she’d interned during her four years of college. She knew she was busy, but it wasn’t until after she graduated that she realized she had completed 15 internships.
Community assistants enjoy job’s freedom Chris Wolfram would recommend his job to every college student. His shift sometimes starts in the dead of night, and once every few weekends, he has to work when his friends go out. Then there are the shifts when he gets paid for listening to music and chatting with the locals of Centreville Hall.
There’s just three months and four days between me and graduation. Do I want to graduate? Not really. Never before has 93 days felt like such a short amount of time. The last thing I want to do right now is get some soul-crushing job that causes me to sit in a tall-walled cubicle all day worrying about some TPS report that has absolutely no impact on anyone’s life.
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