The feeling of going to college changes, say career counseling experts. In the past, it was regarded as a one-way ticket for a career and any financial stability, but the increasing debts for student loans and a shaky labor market have made a university degree more than a given question.
“Many older generations had the luxury of living in a market where their college degree was practically a file-a-job-free card after completing” Employed in the endtold Assets. “With more and more people who are completing university formation, fewer and fewer entry -level roles and the exciting speed of the developing technology, there is much more uncertainty and lack of guarantees.”
Resumegegenus recently asked 1,000 full-time gene Z workers in the United States about their views of college degrees and whether they would choose a different career path. Many of them wished they made different decisions, as the survey showed. For example, every fourth said that they regret to go to college or to wish that they had selected a higher -paid field such as technology, finance, engineering or healthcare.
This report reflects another survey carried out by Career Consultancy ThreeThe recently asked more than 2,000 adults between the ages of 18 and 30 about their career and 62% of young adults gave them not in their career that they wanted to persecute. About25% stated that they are actively difficult to find a job in their intended area.
“Many gene z -students believe that they were told that college is the only way to see people with strongly underembly or overlooked people” Allison Danielsen told Assets. They also ask “whether the college still provides a real value.”
The Average costs of the college According to the education data initiative, there are more than $ 38,000 per student per year. This means that the average costs of college in the 21st century have more than doubled. In the meantime, more than 4 million Gen -zers are unemployed and Incuse your “worthless” college degree.
The life expiry showed that only about a third of the workers of Gen Z with the selection they had made about their training were satisfied and they would not change. Even parents have started to recognize the fact that the value of a university degree changes. Another new one Opinion poll from American student aid Of more than 3,000 middle and high school students, 70% of the teenagers showed that their parents are more likely to support college training for a different persecution such as a commercial school or an apprenticeship.
“Parents wake up. The college does not have the same (return on investment) as once because the costs are outrageous and the result is uncertain.” Trevor HoustonA career strategist at Clearpath assets strategiesPresent previously told Assets. “The students are now exposed to the highest debt, but after the end there is not really.”
A hook-22 for gen z-workers
Younger generations feel stuck when it comes to choosing whether they go to college and which field they should choose, Colin RockerA gene z-contents who concentrated on career counseling for experts for early and medium-sized career Assets.
“Damn if you do it or not (go to college),” said Rocker. “On the one hand, your parents, consultants and professors demand from more liberal arts such as literature or history, but in the news you can see thousands of people every day who work with more technical degrees such as engineering, computer science and marketing while the AI begins the takeover.”
There is “no easy choice” when it comes to choosing a career path, said Rocker. In the past, the persecution of business, technology or health care was a shoe for success, but that is no longer the case when you consider how AI changes work across the board.
Z “is now confronted with the training of a place in an economy in which you are fighting the possibilities against the most advanced systems and technologies that we have ever seen,” added Rocker.
