Career consulting experts say the mood of going to college is changing. In the past, it was seen as a one-way ticket for career and ultimately financial stability, but the growing number of student loan debt and the shaky job market has turned the debt to earn a college degree into more problems than given.
“Many older generations have the luxury of living in a post-graduate college degree is actually a market for a jobless card.” graduate,Tell wealth. “Now, as more people are getting higher education, there are fewer entry-level roles and less speeds of evolving technologies, so there is more uncertainty and lack of assurance.”
Resumegenius was recently investigated Full-time ZZ workers across the United States have on their perception of their college degree and whether they choose different career paths. Surveys show that many of them want them to make different choices. About a quarter said they regret going to college or wish they had chosen a high-paying field such as technology, finance, engineering or healthcare.
The report reflects another survey conducted by a career consulting firm threeMore than 2,000 adults aged 18-30 were also recently surveyed about their career travel and showed that 62% of young people said they were not in the career they intended to pursue. About 25% said they are actively working to find their own areas of intention.
“Many Gen Z students think they are told that college is the only way to just see people who are under- or overlooked,” Tallo CEO Allison Danielsen Tell wealth. Additionally, they “question whether universities still have real value.”
this Average cost of college According to the Education Data Plan, the U.S. has more than $38,000 per year; this means that the average cost of colleges has more than doubled in the 21st century. At the same time, more than 4 million generations of Zers are unemployed, and Blame their “worthless” university degree.
Reasumegenius survey shows that only one-third of Gen Z workers are satisfied with the choices they make for education and will not change it. Even parents are beginning to realize that the value of a college degree is changing. Another recent Poll go through American Student Assistance Of the more than 3,000 middle school students and high school students, 70% of teenagers said their parents were more supportive of abandoning college education for different pursuits of trade schools or apprentices.
“Parents are waking up. College doesn’t carry the same (ROI) because the cost is outrageous and the results are uncertain,” Trevor Houstonprofessional strategist ClearPath Wealth Strategy,,,,, Have been told before wealth. “Now, students face the highest debt ever recorded, but job security after graduation doesn’t exist.”
Generation Z workers’ capture 22
The younger generation will be in trouble when choosing whether to go to college and which field to choose. Colin Rock SingerGeneration Z content creators focus on career advice for early and intermediate professionals, tell wealth.
“If they do or don’t do it (to go to college), then that’s damn,” Locke said. “On the one hand, their parents, counselors and professors urged them to stay away from more majors in literature or history, but every day in the news, they see thousands of people with more technical degrees in engineering, computer science, and marketing, as AI starts to take over.”
Rocker said there is no more “easy choice” when choosing a career path. In the past, working in business, technology, or health care was a successful measure, but this is not necessarily the case given how AI changes jobs.
Rocker added that Z “is now facing a place where you can fight for opportunities in an economy with the most advanced systems and technologies we’ve ever seen.”
