四招幫助大學(xué)畢業(yè)的子女找到工作
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?親愛(ài)的安妮：再過(guò)幾個(gè)月，我兒子就要大學(xué)畢業(yè)了。說(shuō)實(shí)話(huà)，我現(xiàn)在對(duì)他有一點(diǎn)兒擔(dān)心。他在學(xué)校主修金融學(xué)，輔修商科，成績(jī)優(yōu)異，我覺(jué)得他在求職市場(chǎng)上會(huì)很有競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力。他曾做過(guò)幾份實(shí)習(xí)，既有著名的大公司，也有初創(chuàng)公司，但到現(xiàn)在還沒(méi)有一家公司給他一份全職工作。 ????我知道，現(xiàn)在工作很不好找，雖然我不想變成可怕的“直升機(jī)父母”，整天形影不離、喋喋不休地問(wèn)長(zhǎng)問(wèn)短。但我覺(jué)得，他也許需要我的幫助。我和孩子爸爸在各自的工作領(lǐng)域內(nèi)人脈很廣，我們是否應(yīng)該托熟人介紹些工作機(jī)會(huì)給兒子？這是不是個(gè)好辦法？你和你的讀者有什么建議嗎？——一位來(lái)自明尼蘇達(dá)州的母親。 親愛(ài)的明尼蘇達(dá)州母親：你的想法一點(diǎn)兒都沒(méi)錯(cuò)（我們稍后就會(huì)談原因），而且除非你的“幫忙”阻礙了他的成長(zhǎng)，否則，你就不是“直升機(jī)父母”。“找工作本來(lái)就是孩子們的事，你不應(yīng)插手，”戴維?德朗說(shuō)。“另一方面，父母?jìng)兪智宄舐氈飞系母?jìng)爭(zhēng)有多激烈，而象牙塔中的學(xué)生們卻知之甚少?！钡吕屎苡邪l(fā)言權(quán)，他的女兒正在讀大學(xué)三年級(jí)，但是他確切的身份是麻省理工學(xué)院年代實(shí)驗(yàn)室（Age Lab）的職員，也是《畢業(yè)不失業(yè)：怎樣在求職大軍中脫穎而出》（Graduate to a Great Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in Today's Market）一書(shū)的作者。這本書(shū)中有幾個(gè)章節(jié)正是專(zhuān)為應(yīng)屆畢業(yè)生的父母所寫(xiě)，對(duì)你來(lái)說(shuō)或許會(huì)有幫助。 ????的確，2014年畢業(yè)的應(yīng)屆生馬上就要加入浩浩蕩蕩的求職者大軍了。在美國(guó)，18至29歲之間年輕人的失業(yè)率高達(dá)16%，而在無(wú)需本科文憑的工作中，同樣年齡段年輕人的失業(yè)率接近50%。 ????根據(jù)芝加哥職業(yè)介紹機(jī)構(gòu)Challenger, Gray & Christmas的報(bào)告顯示，雖然2013年12月的企業(yè)裁員人數(shù)同比下降了3%，創(chuàng)下了自2000年以來(lái)的新低，但金融類(lèi)的工作機(jī)會(huì)卻并不是那么好找。整個(gè)2013年，金融行業(yè)減少了成千上萬(wàn)個(gè)職位，僅紐約市就減少了8萬(wàn)個(gè)崗位。諷刺的是，由于經(jīng)濟(jì)復(fù)蘇，市場(chǎng)對(duì)擅長(zhǎng)于止贖或沖銷(xiāo)不良貸款專(zhuān)業(yè)人士的需求大幅下降，而他們總歸是要找一份工作。你兒子除了要與這些人競(jìng)爭(zhēng)之外，也還會(huì)面對(duì)許多經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富的金融從業(yè)人員。 |
????Dear Annie: Now that it's 2014, my son will be graduating from college in just a few months, and I have to admit I'm a little worried. He's gotten good grades as a finance major with a minor in business, which I think makes him pretty marketable. He's also done a couple of internships, one with a big-name company and one with a startup, but neither has yet offered him a regular full-time job. ????I know the job market is still pretty weak, and although I hate to think of myself as the dreaded "helicopter parent" always hovering nearby, I still think he could use some help. My husband and I are both well-connected in our respective fields, so should we be introducing our son to people who might know of job openings, or is that a bad idea? What do you and your readers recommend? ------ Minnesota Mom ????Dear M.M.: It's not a bad idea at all (more about that in a minute), and wanting to help doesn't make you a helicopter parent unless your "help" starts getting in the way. "Getting a job is really your child's job. It's not your fight," notes David DeLong. "On the other hand, parents know how tough it is out there, which college students don't always realize." ????DeLong should know. He has a daughter who's a junior in college, but, more to the point, he's a fellow at MIT's Age Lab and the author of a new book called Graduate to a Great Job: Make Your College Degree Pay Off in Today's Market. You might find it useful, since it has a couple of chapters just for parents of new grads. ????It's certainly true that the class of 2014 will step into a rocky job market. Unemployment among U.S. young people ages 18 to 29 is stuck at about 16%, and underemployment in the same age group -- that is, working at a job that doesn't call for a four-year degree -- stands at roughly half. ????Moreover, although layoffs in December fell by about 3% year to year, to their lowest level since 2000, according to Chicago outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas, finance jobs are not thick on the ground: The financial industry lost hundreds of thousands of jobs -- more than 80,000 in New York City alone -- in 2013, ironically due to an economic recovery that has drastically reduced the need for people who specialize in foreclosures and rewriting troubled loans. All of those people have had to go somewhere, and your son is competing against them, as well as against many other seasoned finance mavens. |
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