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Originally Posted by username11

What? Maybe for somebody with an arts/medival art/performing art/lesbian horticulture degree. Starting salaries for technical majors are at least 60K, and that's at a state school.

Those days are long gone. Technical jobs are notorious for posting jobs to college graduates with a laundry list of stuff that's impossible to meet if you don't already have significant working experience. Most tech companies have little interest in people with no experience - after all, why hire a new grad for $60k when I can get someone with 10 years of experience for the same price in this market?

I'm not saying those jobs don't exist, but they're a lot harder to get than people seem to think.

Business and finance are higher, sometimes much higher, especially for finance out of a top school.

Most of the business majors I knew in college didn't fair well and ended up being things like the manager of a department store... times are much worse now. Of the 3 recently business school grads that I know two are unemployed and one is making $13 / hour (this second job was better than her first one right out of school).

In the last year I've been to a few recruiting events (on the hiring side at less than top schools) for jobs offering 75K starting salaries, and we had to cancel some events due to lack of interest/insufficient signups.

IMHO people tend to have an overblown sense of entitlement these days. I'm still surprised, however, by the lack of interest. What's the catch?

I've seen this numerous times first hand but people are getting into fist fights at Kohls hiring events while I have reqs open for six months at $250/hr.

What qualifications? Catches? We have positions at my company that pay that to contractors - I can guarantee you that no recent college grad will get anywhere near meeting those qualifications. For that pay, you have to be a subject matter expert.

There are so many segments of industry where companies are desperate to find good people. Whenever I ask people why they don't move into these fields they say "oh, I don't know how to do that." I guess people in high paying fields came out of the womb with their skillsets .

Is the company willing to train? Most often they expect the applicant to have some kind of knowledge in the field... hence "oh, I don't know how to do that."

This is an employers market right now. Competition is so fierce that employers are more than happy to pull the "you're lucky to have a job" phrase right now. They wouldn't be saying that if the market was booming and they had significant fear of people jumping ship.