Like many rising seniors at Harvard each year, Jenna D. Lang â21 spent the summer before her final year searching for post-graduate job opportunities. This yearâs senior class, however, is graduating into a job market that looks radically different from what it did a year ago.
When Lang reached out to one small media company she hoped to work for, she learned that the coronavirus pandemic had left it struggling to hold on its existing employees, let alone hire new graduates.
âIâve run into that problem a couple of times with smaller organizations â that theyâre just not hiring this year, which is unfortunate because this is the year Iâm graduating,â Lang said.