Career
Pathways
Minimizing your degree
Every year thousands of college grads enter work force yet few attain the desired level of success. Many wrongly assume that if you have a degree in business, you can only pursue a successful career in a business related profession. Being creative with your degree is a new concept that will aid you immensely during recession if you use correctly.
Social Sciences
With more than 150,000 graduates every year, a social science is the second most popular degree. It develops within you skills like logical analysis and weaving through complexities, and they can help you venture into many other professional arenas. For example, you can have a consultancy with a particular specialization that is in demand right now, like business development.
Finance
If you think you are destined to trapped in a finance department as you earned you degree in finance, think again. Your number crunching years are most useful now that recession has made companies to hunt for ways to effective manage their cash flows. You can either coach corporations independently for budgeting and cash management or give a thought to event management. Your skills with deadlines and managing budgets are going to as great asset in this field as well.
Liberal Arts
In terms of skills, there is hardly a match for a degree in liberal arts. After acquiring valued qualities like critical and analytical thinking, cultural awareness, flexibility, communication, and problem solving, your options are unlimited. Research analysts, bloggers, graphics artists, and linguistic specialists are some of the common options you can consider. If none of these options work for you, think about non-profit organizations. This can be rewarding in more ways than just monetary and you’ll have a natural aptitude for it as well.
Business
This is the most popular degree amongst students and churns out more than 300,000 graduates in USA every year. While job opportunities are not created at an equal pace, you can consider other, more creative options as well. Health industry is enjoying a boom and guess what, you can enjoy it too. Although you are not related to medical field in any way, your majors can still get you a respectable job there. Also, think about teaching; not only in colleges and universities but also consider options like government programs for your country or impoverished neighbors.
