Test drive career interests before committing to a college major

In a study published in May 2012, researchers from Rutgers University interviewed people who graduated from college between 2007 and 2011 to determine how they were faring.

The study, entitled “Chasing the American Dream: Recent College Graduates and the Great Recession,” is a “must read” for college-bound students and their parents. One of the key findings is the degree to which college graduates felt they were prepared to enter the labor market: “Half felt they were less well prepared for the world of work than was the generation before them; only 28% felt they were better prepared and 21% felt they were similarly prepared.”

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