They graduated with the expectation that it was going to be a sellers’ market, that they were going to have multiple offers, step into an upper management role and have significant strategic impact on a Fortune 500 company, and that’s just not the reality.
What? The moderate expansion of 2004-07 has barely passed and already it's being romanticized and blown out of proportion. The OP is completely out of touch with reality.
Getting into an upper-management role out of college, and having significant impact on a Fortune 500 company, did not happen, except for extremely well-connected people. The median Ivy grad, much less median college grad, did not have that as an option, and no one expected it either.
In fact, the major reason the bulk of the talent went into finance was its reputation for having a faster career track. They would rather pay dues for 4 years working 70 hours per week than for 10 years working 50.
They graduated with the expectation that it was going to be a sellers’ market, that they were going to have multiple offers, step into an upper management role and have significant strategic impact on a Fortune 500 company, and that’s just not the reality.
What? The moderate expansion of 2004-07 has barely passed and already it's being romanticized and blown out of proportion. The OP is completely out of touch with reality.
Getting into an upper-management role out of college, and having significant impact on a Fortune 500 company, did not happen, except for extremely well-connected people. The median Ivy grad, much less median college grad, did not have that as an option, and no one expected it either.
In fact, the major reason the bulk of the talent went into finance was its reputation for having a faster career track. They would rather pay dues for 4 years working 70 hours per week than for 10 years working 50.