{"id":19654,"date":"2025-09-28T22:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19654"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:22:01","slug":"social-58-of-recent-college-grads-are-unemployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/09\/28\/social-58-of-recent-college-grads-are-unemployed\/","title":{"rendered":"Social: 58% of recent college grads are unemployed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This comes from a single source survey done by a KickResume &#8211; a job assistance firm: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickresume.com\/en\/\">Kickresume | Best Online Resume &amp; Cover Letter Builder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They surveyed a sample of their clients &#8211; who, not surprisingly, are looking for work. Thus, this is a biased sample survey and not a random sample of recent college graduates. As social media favors doomerism, this erroneous result is getting shared widely online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-274.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-274.png 603w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-274-600x286.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-274-567x270.png 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other surveys indicate 56% have found jobs, albeit, not necessarily in their desired field: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeltnietzel\/2025\/09\/10\/new-report-as-skills-gap-grows-job-market-for-college-grads-at-5-year-low\/\">As Skills Gap Grows, Job Market For College Grads Hits 5-Year Low<\/a>. Says 33% &#8211; not 58% &#8211; are still seeking a job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey was done in June and July &#8211; thus between 0 and 2 months after students had graduated. There are not yet any updates as to how this has progressed in the 2 months since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current job market is considered the toughest in the past five years. However, the claim that 58% of recent graduates have no job is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The claim that 58% of recent graduate have no job is false, and comes about from a biased sample used in the survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cherry-picking","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}