Comments on: Unemployed Graduate Sues College for Unemployment http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/ Legal News, Legal Views, Law News, Legal Jobs, Law Jobs, Training Contracts, Training Contract News, Legal Humour Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:53:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nic http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/comment-page-1/#comment-4816 Nic Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:47 +0000 http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/#comment-4816 I really do hope this case got thrown out of court. The <a href="http://www.graduate-jobs.com/" rel="nofollow">graduate jobs</a> market is tough, it has been for years. If this woman expected to wander out of college waving a degree around and just land a job immediately, she's delusional. You musn't do a degree with that expectation any more. It was true once, now it is not. You must have other reasons for wanting to do it to. Otherwise you're going to be very disappointed. I really do hope this case got thrown out of court. The graduate jobs market is tough, it has been for years. If this woman expected to wander out of college waving a degree around and just land a job immediately, she’s delusional.

You musn’t do a degree with that expectation any more. It was true once, now it is not. You must have other reasons for wanting to do it to. Otherwise you’re going to be very disappointed.

]]> By: Kieran http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/comment-page-1/#comment-3042 Kieran Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/#comment-3042 Whether or not there is a case here it is inidicative of how the education system is evolving. Looking beyond law graduates, the whole higher and further ed' system in the UK clearly needs a shake up. Naive 16-18 year olds are spun all sorts of tales about where their degree route can take them. The reality is that there are huge over supplies of graduates in some industries and huge under supplies in others. My experience of career advice at school and college was so far off the mark it was untrue. Surely with a bit of forward thinking there could be guestimates of the number of jobs that will be available in 3-4 years time to suit attendees of the more popular degree routes. If you were told at 16 that there was a 1 in 50 chance of your Marketing degree leading to a job in marketing you might think twice. For example - I knew around 30 people who studied sports nutrition at degree level and only one of them is employed as a sports nutritionist. She still has the document which her career advisor gave her in 1998 saying that the average sports nutritionist salary straight out of uni was around £23k, but at 27 is still just shy of this figure. This was also after having to do another 2 years study on top of the first degree as it wasn't even suitable for industry. There clearly needs to be freedom of choice for students and competition for the best candidates, but giving 'kids' unrealstic expectations and guiding them towards a probable dead end with a large slice of long term debt thrown in to boot is just not right. Whether or not there is a case here it is inidicative of how the education system is evolving. Looking beyond law graduates, the whole higher and further ed’ system in the UK clearly needs a shake up. Naive 16-18 year olds are spun all sorts of tales about where their degree route can take them. The reality is that there are huge over supplies of graduates in some industries and huge under supplies in others. My experience of career advice at school and college was so far off the mark it was untrue.

Surely with a bit of forward thinking there could be guestimates of the number of jobs that will be available in 3-4 years time to suit attendees of the more popular degree routes. If you were told at 16 that there was a 1 in 50 chance of your Marketing degree leading to a job in marketing you might think twice. For example – I knew around 30 people who studied sports nutrition at degree level and only one of them is employed as a sports nutritionist. She still has the document which her career advisor gave her in 1998 saying that the average sports nutritionist salary straight out of uni was around £23k, but at 27 is still just shy of this figure. This was also after having to do another 2 years study on top of the first degree as it wasn’t even suitable for industry.

There clearly needs to be freedom of choice for students and competition for the best candidates, but giving ‘kids’ unrealstic expectations and guiding them towards a probable dead end with a large slice of long term debt thrown in to boot is just not right.

]]> By: Spinemesis http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/comment-page-1/#comment-3041 Spinemesis Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:59:05 +0000 http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/#comment-3041 Errmm...might the economic system have something to do with it or do all American graduates believe in perpetual sunshine for shiny happy people everywhere ? Errmm…might the economic system have something to do with it or do all American graduates believe in perpetual sunshine for shiny happy people everywhere ?

]]> By: kim http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/comment-page-1/#comment-3040 kim Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:43:10 +0000 http://www.solicitr.com/2009/08/05/unemployed-graduate-sues-college-for-unemployment/#comment-3040 That kind of litigation is highly unlikely here, Americans just seem to love their frivolous lawsuits. That kind of litigation is highly unlikely here, Americans just seem to love their frivolous lawsuits.

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