'I'm ready to start with a career': 2020 graduates face uncertain job market with hope

shows more than 1.5 million open postings for entry-level jobs and more than 65,000 postings for internships in the United States.This year there is"increased demand from health care and retail companies who are hiring workers to be on the front lines of coronavirus," Blake Barnes, author of LinkedIn's 2020 guide, told The Tennessean.

Phamvan went to work at Best Buy after college, making $12.50 an hour, a near 50% pay cut from his high school job. At the time, he said, the challenges he faced felt like"the end of the world.""Looking back on it 10 years later, I made it through it, and it got better," he said."It got better for everybody else that I know as well. The doctors still became doctors. The lawyers still became lawyers. The teachers are teaching.

Some students and recent graduates have seen start dates postponed, internships canceled and job offers rescinded, according to Mark McCloud, director of career planning and development for the University of Tennessee, Martin, and Stephanie Kit, director of the Center for Career Development at UT Knoxville.

He was supposed to leave for Taiwan in August to teach English to elementary school students as part of the Fulbright program, but travel restrictions pushed back those plans until at least January. He turned down a job opportunity in sales to accept the Fulbright position, and March was rife with uncertainty about his immediate future.

2008 grad here. Literally just the last generation.

2008 just called...

Thanks Captain Obvious 🤦🏽‍♀️

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