Graduate Can't Find Job. Sues College

(Huffington Post) A New York City woman who says she can't find a job is suing the college where she earned a bachelor's degree.

Trina Thompson filed a lawsuit against Monroe College in Bronx Supreme Court. The 27-year-old is seeking the $70,000 she spent on tuition.

Thompson says she's been unable to find gainful employment since she received her information technology degree in April.

She says the Bronx school's Office of Career Advancement hasn't provided her with the leads and career advice it promises.

Monroe College spokesman Gary Axelbank says Thompson's lawsuit is completely without merit.

The college insists it helps its graduates find jobs.

Scott Drake gets legal analysis (kind of) from LBN senior correspondent Sean Carter.

Comments

[Nic]

Try asking your contacts.
Try taking voluntary work.
Try writing to companies, asking about graduate opportunities.
Try Twitter.
Try brushing up on your soft skills.
Try job boards like http://www.graduate-jobs.com

In other words TRY.

Now if this had broke on the first of April, I'd swear this was a prank story. I wish it were a prank story because the idea that someone as deluded as this woman managed to get a degree is absolutely mind-boggling. If she was expecting a plethora of graduate careers to fall into her lap, she should never have gone for a degree.

All she's going to achieve is to get herself blacklisted by every company who wishes to avod giving a job to a sue-happy graduate with a sense of entitlement.

[Natalie Loopbaanadvies]

With the huge competition in the market of fresh graduates seeking for job, it is really difficult to look for one, nowadays. But everything is always a matter of determination and sincerity. If you really want to get a job, start preparing and make connections. You are right, TRY.

Cheers,
<a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Loopbaanadvies">Natalie Loopbaanadvies</a>

[Maria Payroll]

I don't think it's right to sue our university if we won't be able to find a job immediately. It's all in us. It's never because of the school where we came from or who our professor is. Everything that's happening to us shouldn't be blame to somebody else. It's no one's fault if we can't land a job. We have to work hard for it.