Name: New Normal: College students face uncertain career beginnings due to COVID-19
Uploaded: 2020-04-24
Duration: 4 min 50 s
Description: From hiring freezes to rescinded internships, many soon-to-be graduates are having to reconcile with a future career filled with question marks.

So a few months back, I landed a dream internship .>> It was like a big accomplishment and >> I was really proud of myself and then all the offers had been recently >> rescinded and canceled due to the Coronavirus situation and just makes it very uncertain about where I may be going now professionally like Many college students, the Coronavirus pandemic has meant not only online classes, but having to watch their job and internship offers go down the drain. So what is the new normal like for the class of COVID- 19 ?>> Emotionally speaking, I think it's been a really stressful time. It's supposed to be the best time of your life. You're graduating from From college or graduate with your master's degree, and you have a lot of high hopes for the future and thinking, Okay, I have so many options of where I could begin my career. And now with everything going on, I feel like those opportunities have Diminished greatly. It's really hard because a lot of the jobs have been postponed or put on hold. I've definitely seen a decrease in job postings kind of getting that like, just kidding. We can't hire you anymore. It was eartbreaking. I cried for a little bit because you work for something and then it kind of just gets ripped out of your hands. I'm gonna have a bit of a gap in my like resume If I'm competing against somebody who did a remote internship versus me who had their internship presented, not as sympathetic as a hiring manager maybe to that one person has an internship experience where another person ,>> I feel stuck right now I feel like there's not too much that I can do to help myself further in the job search process. And then also it's just the struggle of not knowing where things will be in the future. Even when this pandemic ends. I don't know how the markets going to look and how companies are going to be able to bounce back and possibly hire new people or if they're just going to have to continue to lay people off. Hi, my name is Shayna Walker. I'm the director of campus recruiting and diversity and inclusion at horizon media. Overall we are in a hiring freeze. Its difficult right because we even as recruiters are very invested in the program and we want it to continue in whatever form it can but obviously we are in bit of a Position. The students are not only losing hands- on experience, it's also adding a financial burden and many feel that the government aid has overlooked the student population. When they were coming out with the stimulus package, I was excited to know like okay, even if I don't have a job, I will get this and then when I read the details, I realized that Because my mother still claims me as a dependent, I won't be getting that you can't fall for unemployment. I'm a student. Having that much of a loss of expected income really hurts when it comes to planning my financial future, especially with college. I have students currently that Are the sole breadwinners in their family. We've talked a lot about student loan suspension for payments, but that only applies to the people who have graduated and are currently paying on student loans. What happens to the students who have to forego the next year of college? I think that there needs to be something to help them into a situation so that they can complete their degrees. And then it can be supported, especially given a difficult time, I'm sure their families are facing as well. I've worked in the Filip services for about 15 years, and we've gone through recession and challenging times before During those times we have focused and poster students on having multiple plans being flexible. It's okay to not be okay. See the chaos but see the opportunities that are present and the midst of the chaos to be intentional about how they're learning more about themselves and to help draw the future. What work will look like and what will our new normal look like. Students are in the front line of that innovation and they are now looking at things from a much different point of view, they are able to walk outside their box. They're are going to be an amazing asset to the workspace. I'm trying to Maybe make a positive out of this. I'm using this time to kind of just redo my entire portfolio, build my brand work on at home projects. For myself. This isn't like the end of the road. It's just a speed bump, which is gonna slow us down a little bit. This won't last forever and that we will be able to overcome it this time. It's really hard for all of us. But we're basically all in this together. We will get to our chosen career field and whatever our hopes and dreams are, we'll have it. [ MUSIC ]

New Normal: College students face uncertain career beginnings due to COVID-19

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They face hiring freezes and rescinded internships.

COVID-19 creates uncertainty for college students

From hiring freezes to rescinded internships, many soon-to-be graduates are having to reconcile with a future career filled with question marks.