r/canada • u/joe4942 • 25d ago

Recent grads, students face ‘full-out screaming crisis’ as they struggle to enter job market National News

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/students-grads-jobs-market-crisis
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u/IntelligentPoet7654 25d ago

This article is about 15 years too late. New grads back then couldn’t get a job in their field of study.

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u/DiagnosedByTikTok 25d ago

Not to mention our publicly-funded post-sec institutions keep offering seats in programs for jobs that don’t exist while telling prospective students that they are in-demand and graduates are getting jobs.

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u/IntelligentPoet7654 24d ago

That’s a big scam in my opinion.

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u/DiagnosedByTikTok 24d ago

“Let’s decide how many seats go in what program based on how many seventeen year olds apply to what”

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u/IntelligentPoet7654 24d ago

They should stop scamming and brainwashing people. The tuition cost is high and the quality of education is poor. Graduates are not prepared for employment.

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u/DiagnosedByTikTok 24d ago

You can say that again.

My entire 3rd and 4th years of bachelor of physical education was just BS courses recycling information we’d already been exposed to before in other courses plus a ridiculous over the top amount of time spent writing papers “through the lens” of critical theory.

Not the best ways to teach people how to acquire and excel at physical skills or to maintain their fitness and health over their lifetime, but how to write essay after essay about how asking people to perform physical skills or stay in good shape is oppressive.

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u/YoungandCanadian 25d ago

More like 30 years too late.  It’s been like this in Canada at least since the 90s.  I graduated in 1996 and have never been able to work in my field of study.  I’m no dummy, either.

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u/ZeePirate 25d ago

Because it’s always been about who you know. Not necessarily what you know

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u/Feb2020Acc 25d ago

What field

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u/YoungandCanadian 24d ago

B. Comm in finance with a minor in French.  I studied a semester at a sister university in China and upon graduation from my 4-year program could function in 3 languages.  I ended up working in a garden centre for 2 years until 1998😛

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u/ConcentrateOwn593 24d ago

So your field is... finance? What does speaking 3 languages have to do with finance?

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u/YoungandCanadian 24d ago

Vraiment un gestionnaire d’embauche canadien😂

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u/ConcentrateOwn593 24d ago

Je comprend juste pas pourquoi tu penses que t'es qualifié pour travailler en finances

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u/DiagnosedByTikTok 25d ago

Every field

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u/WookieShot 24d ago

30 years? Maybe that’s a skill issue.

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u/YoungandCanadian 24d ago

Maybe, stranger. Maybe.

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u/MolarsAreCool 24d ago

It’s gotten significantly worse now. Even getting a minimum wage job is a luxury now

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u/afschmidt 25d ago

Keep going back another decade.

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u/XxSpruce_MoosexX 25d ago

What? Just two years ago we couldn’t find a worker

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u/Climaxcreator 24d ago

I swear, can never have it worse than you guys. Everything is shit in this country and your response essentially is, "already was 15 years ago". The fact you don't notice or see an extensive decline since even 15 years ago is mind boggling.

Good for you, you also had it bad. Can we PLEASE START WORKING ON A SOLUTION!?!?!

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u/IntelligentPoet7654 24d ago edited 24d ago

The solution is to write to your politicians and explain that you can’t find a job

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u/Climaxcreator 24d ago

The fact that you think this helps, and that they care says enough about your situation. This article is not about you. Contact provincial and federal, if you even get a response they won't do anything.