Vol. 105 Issue 46
@thepittnews WHO’S A GOOD BOY?
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Pitt grads find life after college scary, rewarding Sabrina Romano Staff Writer
Charlie, a therapy dog, helps students relieve stress in the Cathedral of Learning Tuesdays from 7-8 p.m. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer
The Talbert Report
Fighting the evils of neutrality
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Pittnews.com
Battle of Pennsylvania Penn State highlights future Pitt schedule
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After four years of networking with Deloitte LLP, Olivia Domachowski will graduate from Pitt this spring, skip over the job search and land on track working with the company. “I will be going to private and public companies to audit their financial statements to make sure they are free of material misstatements,” Domachowski said. Domachowski secured a full-time job in August at the end of her internship with Deloitte LLP, an audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting firm with a location in Pittsburgh. Next September, Domachowski will be on the audit staff in the Pittsburgh office using the skills she learned at Pitt. For many of her classmates, the transition from college to career won’t be so immediate. Research from sociologists at New York University and University of Virginia shows that almost one-quarter of recent graduates are living at home. Additionally, threequarters of recent graduates have received financial assistance from parents. Pitt graduates and seniors lining up for graduation are aware of the bleak job market, and, even though the school year has just started, many have made post-graduate plans or have a vision of where they
would like to be in a year. Yet, some statistics continue to give students hope. Researchers Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa created a pie chart in 2011 that displays employee outcomes and incomes of 1,000 adults two years after they graduated college. Twenty-six percent of recent college graduates were employed full-time and earning more than $40,000 per year. Twenty-one percent were employed full-time and making between $30-40,000 per year. Fifteen percent were employed full-time but making between $30-20,000 per year. Another 15 percent were employed full-time but making less than $20,000 per year. Seven percent were unemployed. Four percent were underemployed, and 12 percent were part-time. For some students, looking to the fast-approaching future doesn’t always mean considering careers just yet. Bethany Jones has been determined since she visited Las Vegas last year to move out of Pittsburgh. “I was like, I have to live here at some point in my life,” said Jones, a senior math and economics major. “Why not right after college, because if I don’t like it I can always leave?” Jones does not have a job lined up but hopes to be a financial analyst. “While I’m looking [for a job] I will probably just get a
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