NewCollegeParent
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Some of your comments piqued my interest. I guess I suspected from talking to hiring authorities so I thought I'd take a quick look at my market segment. to see the breakdown of preferred degrees.
I own a recruiting firm and we recruit management and supply chain professionals. So I don't do sales and marketing, but more of the execution side of businesses. This also does not include IT, it is obviously skewed. I also eliminated specific engineering positions as that would be skewed as well. These are the general management positions in the salary range of 65K-125K for this year and the degrees of those we placed.
46 total
16 engineering and engineering tech
15 Business and accounting (Included supply chain degrees)
6 General Science (environmental, chemistry, physics, biology)
4 No-bachelor Degree
3 Liberal arts,science and Exercise
2 Technology (Systems/IT)
Now when you get into sales and marketing things will change a great deal. However, you may be surprised at how valued the Stem people are for these positions as well.
Most of our sons and daughters no matter what their degree have learned some valuable skills in leading people. They should at a minimum be able to leverage that if they don't get their first job choice (Active Duty).
You may draw your own conclusions, but I have steered both of my children to learn technical skills in their bachelor and pursue an interest later as a graduate degree.
Some of your comments piqued my interest. I guess I suspected from talking to hiring authorities so I thought I'd take a quick look at my market segment. to see the breakdown of preferred degrees.
I own a recruiting firm and we recruit management and supply chain professionals. So I don't do sales and marketing, but more of the execution side of businesses. This also does not include IT, it is obviously skewed. I also eliminated specific engineering positions as that would be skewed as well. These are the general management positions in the salary range of 65K-125K for this year and the degrees of those we placed.
46 total
16 engineering and engineering tech
15 Business and accounting (Included supply chain degrees)
6 General Science (environmental, chemistry, physics, biology)
4 No-bachelor Degree
3 Liberal arts,science and Exercise
2 Technology (Systems/IT)
Now when you get into sales and marketing things will change a great deal. However, you may be surprised at how valued the Stem people are for these positions as well.
Most of our sons and daughters no matter what their degree have learned some valuable skills in leading people. They should at a minimum be able to leverage that if they don't get their first job choice (Active Duty).
You may draw your own conclusions, but I have steered both of my children to learn technical skills in their bachelor and pursue an interest later as a graduate degree.