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How’s Job Hunting Going for the Class of 2021? We Checked In with Some Soon-to-be Grads
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Seniors share their strategies for finding employment
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, it more or less eviscerated the market for entry-level jobs. Thanks to hiring freezes, furloughs, layoffs, and rescinded offers, the national employment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds ballooned to a dismal 25.7 percent last May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly a year later, prospects for 2021 graduates are on the upswing, says a National Association of Colleges and Employers March report: employers project hiring 7.2 percent more college graduates this year than last.
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It was still February, but Fiorella Duarte, who would be graduating from the Questrom School of Business at the end of the semester, decided that it was not too early to start looking for a job. Duarte (Questrom’21), enrolled in the Master of Science in Management Studies (MSMS) program, signed into BU’s new networking platform, BU Connects, and followed the cues to find a mentor.
The person she found was Oracle employee Leanne Quinn (Pardee’20), and Quinn was happy to help. She set up a Zoom call and explained how things work at Oracle, from the interview process to the corporate culture. Three days later, Duarte was meeting with an Oracle recruiter, and two weeks after that she was offered a job as a business development consultant.