In 1999 my company was out of cash and out of favor with our VCs. Our U of Michigan CTO went to his alumni buddies at FMC and got a $400k check the next day for a custom build we didn't have started, but it saved us. No RFP, $400K!
That's what college was for. You were supposed to take your head out of your phone and make connections that turn into success.
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American is a Business Economics graduate from UCLA
He has been applying for jobs for 228 days. He isn’t even looking for specific to his major anymore, he’s applying to any job
He had a 4.0 GPA and still can’t get a job, he says this is how bad the job market is that everyone talks about
I think part of the problem is California incentivizes “inclusive recruitment”
Even offering tax incentives for hiring targeted groups
Many California companies pursue DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) goals. This only means ‘non-white’
The odds are greatly stacked against him as a white male in California and in America in general