Think Finding a Job Out of College is Hard? Try Doing It in a Pandemic On 12/18/20 at 4:14 PM EST But some grads aren't waiting for the market to come to them. Steven Schwartz, a finance and computer science student at New York University planning to graduate in May, took a different approach. He figured that since job prospects were dismal due to the pandemic, he'd just start his own company. He and Cameron Zoub, a longtime friend, founded Varfaj Partners, a technology and consulting company that builds websites for startups that enable them to display their goods or services in an engaging manner.