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	<title>Comments on: Reason to give thanks: There is no job shortage for young people</title>
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	<description>Advice at the intersection of work and life</description>
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		<title>By: Dude from Chicago area</title>
		<link>http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/11/26/reason-to-give-thanks-there-is-no-job-shortage-for-young-people/comment-page-2/#comment-219337</link>
		<dc:creator>Dude from Chicago area</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What you write might have been true about fourteen months ago, but in the present there are hardly any professional jobs for recent college grads. An overwhelming majority of grads are either unemployed or working the types of jobs they had in high school and or college. 

The criteria required for jobs is really starting to get frustrating. Just about every entry level job requires 2 plus years of experience! That is crazy. The jobs that require no experience have hundreds, if not thousands, of people competing for them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What you write might have been true about fourteen months ago, but in the present there are hardly any professional jobs for recent college grads. An overwhelming majority of grads are either unemployed or working the types of jobs they had in high school and or college. </p>
<p>The criteria required for jobs is really starting to get frustrating. Just about every entry level job requires 2 plus years of experience! That is crazy. The jobs that require no experience have hundreds, if not thousands, of people competing for them.</p>
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		<title>By: Accredited Degree Programs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Accredited Degree Programs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At last someone has something positive to say about the job scene in the country. I especially like the point about college graduates enjoying decent job prospects despite the state of economy. This further establishes the strong co-relation between college education and a satisfying career. The statistics speak for themselves as the jobless rate among college graduates stands at half the overall jobless rate in the country. So, if you are a self-starter armed with a college degree, you should find plenty of options in the job market. And if you want to join the skilled workforce of the country, then enroll in a college degree program today. For a broad range of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.collegeamerica.edu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;accredited degree programs&lt;/a&gt; in high demand fields, visit CollegeAmerica.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At last someone has something positive to say about the job scene in the country. I especially like the point about college graduates enjoying decent job prospects despite the state of economy. This further establishes the strong co-relation between college education and a satisfying career. The statistics speak for themselves as the jobless rate among college graduates stands at half the overall jobless rate in the country. So, if you are a self-starter armed with a college degree, you should find plenty of options in the job market. And if you want to join the skilled workforce of the country, then enroll in a college degree program today. For a broad range of <a href="http://www.collegeamerica.edu/" rel="nofollow">accredited degree programs</a> in high demand fields, visit CollegeAmerica.</p>
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		<title>By: No</title>
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		<dc:creator>No</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a 3.8 GPA after 2 years in college.  I was unemployed this time last year.  I am unemployed right now.  I had a few months of work between then and now but the most I could get was 10 hours a week.  

A lot of older people who can&#039;t find work in their field right now are taking up the entry level jobs.  A lot of people who weren&#039;t working before have started working and are taking up entry level jobs.

Maybe it&#039;s a good time to be young if you have the right connections.  Personally, I can&#039;t wait to be 40.  My teenage years sucked because my Dad was laid off and my college years suck because I have to worry about if I can even survive!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a 3.8 GPA after 2 years in college.  I was unemployed this time last year.  I am unemployed right now.  I had a few months of work between then and now but the most I could get was 10 hours a week.  </p>
<p>A lot of older people who can&#039;t find work in their field right now are taking up the entry level jobs.  A lot of people who weren&#039;t working before have started working and are taking up entry level jobs.</p>
<p>Maybe it&#039;s a good time to be young if you have the right connections.  Personally, I can&#039;t wait to be 40.  My teenage years sucked because my Dad was laid off and my college years suck because I have to worry about if I can even survive!</p>
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		<title>By: leo</title>
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		<dc:creator>leo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this s a loaddd of rubish , thanx for nothing !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this s a loaddd of rubish , thanx for nothing !</p>
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		<title>By: Jobs for Teenagers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jobs for Teenagers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think I should agree with the above statement. It seems that your observation last year was wrong. I even read how a man begged for an hourly job which are commonly done by teenagers because he got fired after working for more than five years as a restaurant manager. It seems that this situation is not getting better yet and many teenagers got frustrated already.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I should agree with the above statement. It seems that your observation last year was wrong. I even read how a man begged for an hourly job which are commonly done by teenagers because he got fired after working for more than five years as a restaurant manager. It seems that this situation is not getting better yet and many teenagers got frustrated already.</p>
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		<title>By: Recent grads are the silver lining &#124; TalentEgg Career Incubator</title>
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		<dc:creator>Recent grads are the silver lining &#124; TalentEgg Career Incubator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Careerist founder Penelope Trunk recently posted some encouraging evidence that young workers are holding their own in the current [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Magnus Avery</title>
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		<dc:creator>Magnus Avery</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I reside in the Inland Empire of California, and I don&#039;t know where in the hell you are getting these sources of information from, but they are entirely false. I have been seeking work for over two years now, since graduating from high school so that I might be able to afford and attend Pre-Med in college, but there, and I will emphasize this, are NO JOBS ANYWHERE FOR THE UNSKILLED AND THE SKILLED ALIKE - NONE.

I went to an In-N-Out interview at the local college last year, and THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE, I repeat, THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE were lined up for EIGHT POSITIONS! There were old people, middle aged people, teenagers and even people with COLLEGE DEGREES standing in that line FOR HOURS AND THE ENTIRE PROCESS WENT ON FOR THREE DAYS! Does this sound like there are jobs out there to you? I think not. And this situation is happening all over this state and many others (the Staples center had the same scenario unfold a month previous to this). There is no more work for the rightful, LEGAL citizens of America and our futures are being destroyed. 

So please, do the honorable thing and STOP adding insult to injury with slapping us in the face with lies and false hopes like what you&#039;re spewing in this article - it is degrading to us all!

By the way, why don&#039;t you people write about something tangible - like how ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is destroying this country - 1 MILLION PEOPLE A YEAR! These people are a HUGE part of the reason we are all in this mess to begin with, remember the housing markets crashing and people getting pissed off because 85% of those home buyers defaulted and basically destroyed wall street? That was them! HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE *ONLY* ONES GETTING THE 0 YEARS EXPERIENCE JOBS LATELY? THE *ONLY* ONES THAT ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE HEALTH CARE? The *ONLY* ones able to buy that shiny new Escalade?! 

WAKE UP, OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE WHAT THE REAL ISSUES ARE - AND FIX THEM! GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF HERE OR MAKE THEM PAY FOR THEIR NEEDS AND WANTS AND MAKE THEM SUPPORT &quot;THE SYSTEM&quot; LIKE THE REST OF US INSTEAD OF LETTING THEM BRING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE CRIPPLING DOWN ONTO IT&#039;S KNEES BY MAKING *US* BREAK OUR BACKS TO SUPPORT THEM, LEAVING NOTHING LEFT FOR OURSELVES!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I reside in the Inland Empire of California, and I don&#039;t know where in the hell you are getting these sources of information from, but they are entirely false. I have been seeking work for over two years now, since graduating from high school so that I might be able to afford and attend Pre-Med in college, but there, and I will emphasize this, are NO JOBS ANYWHERE FOR THE UNSKILLED AND THE SKILLED ALIKE &#8211; NONE.</p>
<p>I went to an In-N-Out interview at the local college last year, and THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE, I repeat, THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE were lined up for EIGHT POSITIONS! There were old people, middle aged people, teenagers and even people with COLLEGE DEGREES standing in that line FOR HOURS AND THE ENTIRE PROCESS WENT ON FOR THREE DAYS! Does this sound like there are jobs out there to you? I think not. And this situation is happening all over this state and many others (the Staples center had the same scenario unfold a month previous to this). There is no more work for the rightful, LEGAL citizens of America and our futures are being destroyed. </p>
<p>So please, do the honorable thing and STOP adding insult to injury with slapping us in the face with lies and false hopes like what you&#039;re spewing in this article &#8211; it is degrading to us all!</p>
<p>By the way, why don&#039;t you people write about something tangible &#8211; like how ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is destroying this country &#8211; 1 MILLION PEOPLE A YEAR! These people are a HUGE part of the reason we are all in this mess to begin with, remember the housing markets crashing and people getting pissed off because 85% of those home buyers defaulted and basically destroyed wall street? That was them! HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE THE *ONLY* ONES GETTING THE 0 YEARS EXPERIENCE JOBS LATELY? THE *ONLY* ONES THAT ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE HEALTH CARE? The *ONLY* ones able to buy that shiny new Escalade?! </p>
<p>WAKE UP, OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE WHAT THE REAL ISSUES ARE &#8211; AND FIX THEM! GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF HERE OR MAKE THEM PAY FOR THEIR NEEDS AND WANTS AND MAKE THEM SUPPORT &#034;THE SYSTEM&#034; LIKE THE REST OF US INSTEAD OF LETTING THEM BRING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE CRIPPLING DOWN ONTO IT&#039;S KNEES BY MAKING *US* BREAK OUR BACKS TO SUPPORT THEM, LEAVING NOTHING LEFT FOR OURSELVES!</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is this guy smoking lol? There are nearly no jobs available for college students or graduates. It&#039;s even worse for graduate students right now. Several of my friends have just graduated with law degrees, and MBA&#039;s and they haven&#039;t found a job yet. I hope someone will impeach Barack Obama before he spends every last dollar the American people have earned.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is this guy smoking lol? There are nearly no jobs available for college students or graduates. It&#039;s even worse for graduate students right now. Several of my friends have just graduated with law degrees, and MBA&#039;s and they haven&#039;t found a job yet. I hope someone will impeach Barack Obama before he spends every last dollar the American people have earned.</p>
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		<title>By: Reason to give thanks There is no job shortage for young people &#124; debt solutions</title>
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		<dc:creator>Reason to give thanks There is no job shortage for young people &#124; debt solutions</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Reason to give thanks There is no job shortage for young people   Posted by root 41 minutes ago (http://blog.penelopetrunk.com)        Alan schweyer has a great comment toward the bottom of the comments in the middle of 2008 robert half a recruiting agency for accounting and finance said that but then i forget this is not a blog for those who do manual jobs to penelope trunk brazen caree        Discuss&#160;  &#124;&#160; Bury &#124;&#160;    News &#124; Reason to give thanks There is no job shortage for young people [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Reason to give thanks There is no job shortage for young people   Posted by root 41 minutes ago (<a href="http://blog.penelopetrunk.com" rel="nofollow">http://blog.penelopetrunk.com</a>)        Alan schweyer has a great comment toward the bottom of the comments in the middle of 2008 robert half a recruiting agency for accounting and finance said that but then i forget this is not a blog for those who do manual jobs to penelope trunk brazen caree        Discuss&nbsp;  |&nbsp; Bury |&nbsp;    News | Reason to give thanks There is no job shortage for young people [...]</p>
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		<title>By: 081128 Social Media Links (Nov 28, 2008) &#124; johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views</title>
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		<dc:creator>081128 Social Media Links (Nov 28, 2008) &#124; johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 03:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Of course, don&#8217;t get me started. The baby boomers had a great run spending tons of money they didn&#8217;t have and then bitching that the economic rug is pulled out from under them. But there is no mention that Gen X never even had a good run. How about reporting that?&quot; Penelope Trunk [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Of course, don&#039;t get me started. The baby boomers had a great run spending tons of money they didn&#039;t have and then bitching that the economic rug is pulled out from under them. But there is no mention that Gen X never even had a good run. How about reporting that?&quot; Penelope Trunk [...]</p>
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