ORLANDO, Fla. — The coronavirus pandemic is making it tougher for soon-to-be college graduates looking for jobs or trying to get into graduate school.
“I’m applying every single day, I apply to at least 10 companies a day trying to hear and get something back from them,” said University of Florida graduating senior Stevenson Bassy. “I just literally have to take everything day by day and just pray and hope form something to come through.”
He’s looking at alternatives such as grad school, but even that has its challenges.
“I’m not able to take the GRE in person and there isn’t a set date for me to take the exam,” he said.
Hundreds of thousands of graduating seniors share Stevenson's pain.
Umesh Ramakrishnan, CEO of Kingsley Gate Partners, a global executive search firm out of Dallas, said there has to be a plan B.
“How do you take what you learned and convert that into transferable skills in the digital world? That’s going to be critical,” he said.
He said openings with students preferred career of choice will eventually come back, but not as soon as they would like.
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