They've Earned Their Degrees. Now What? ; Many Young Graduates Struggle to Solve the Career Puzzle

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They prepped for SATs, survived the college application frenzy, made it through college and walked away with diplomas. Now what?

"So many bright young undergraduates sit across from my desk in spring of senior year and say, 'Professor, I majored in fill-in-the- blank. What do I do if I don't want to go to law school?,' " laments Carl Van Horn, director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Students these days "are so over- programmed and busy, one thing they may neglect is the punch line: What do I do after I graduate?"

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They've Earned Their Degrees. Now What? ; Many Young Graduates Struggle to Solve the Career Puzzle

To be sure, the concern that many educated young people don't know what they want to do next is nothing new. Just think back to the 1967 movie "The Graduate," in which Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin Braddock floated aimlessly in his parents' swimming poo...

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