r/ChemicalEngineering • u/cololz1 • 11d ago

Job Search New grads how are you guys doing?

is the market good or bad in your area?

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u/patrick_notstar28 11d ago

I should’ve gone to trades school.

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u/LowPause3892 11d ago

Fr, they all get my dream internships >.<

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u/vb__16 11d ago

It's rough. I would say 50% of my friends haven't find a job yet, including myself.

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u/CommunicationMuch404 11d ago

I am extremely lucky to got a contractor role at least to make some breads. What surprises me is most of people from my class (from what I’ve heard) and from my coworker’s class are already employed and pulling good money. Not the kind of situation I’ve been seeing around on Reddit.

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u/TheGABB Software/ 11y 9d ago

Unemployed new grads spend a disproportionate amount of time on Reddit. It’s obviously a very small sliver of the grad population.

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u/biohacker1104 11d ago

Hi what is your 📍

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u/South-Hovercraft-351 11d ago

everyone i knew in college currently has a job or is off to grad school so great i think

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u/MoneyMammoth4718 10d ago

In Latin America the situation is horrible... 30% of my Colleges have jobs, most on them on sells so not really ChemEng focusse and salaries are really really bad. The ones that do not work as ChemEng are working in totally different stuff, gym trainers, call centers...

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u/Ejeh38 9d ago

Where do you live exactly in latin america?

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u/MoneyMammoth4718 9d ago

Bogota - Colombia

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u/Ejeh38 8d ago

I live in costa rica and the market is somewhat healthy, just not for new grads, but thats like a normal issue

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u/Benign_Banjo 11d ago

Starting as a Process Chemist next week. Massively underpaid and terribly afraid of getting pigeon-holed out of an engineering career. But I'm employed I guess, so I will be grateful and deal with it 

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u/Galaxymantis 10d ago

Most of my graduating class didn’t find jobs. I ended up in an incineration plant

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

I went to a school with a cheme class size of <60. So far, 1/3 are going to grad school for masters/phd, 1/3 Ik who weren’t able to get any internships and/or research are struggling to find full time entry level positions like me, and the other 1/3 have full time positions already (e.g. rotational programs).

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u/forward1623 11d ago

The market is fine. I’m 2 years out and interviewing with companies practically every week. And I was a sub-3.0 GPA student.