There Are Cool Job Options After College That Aren’t Consulting (Or Finance)
5 Recent Graduates Pursuing Varied Entry-Level Opportunities
As on-campus recruiting season rolls around, college students everywhere are flocking to apply for jobs in a sector they hadn’t heard of a few years ago. Especially for a generation intrigued by optionality, the structured recruiting process and fabled perks of consulting are very alluring.
These are indeed great benefits, and there exists a whole web of other career options that are exciting and fulfilling and may be a better fit depending on what kind of lifestyle you’re looking for after college. I don’t mean to suggest that other sectors are any less competitive or demanding than consulting and finance — recruiting in other sectors can be difficult to navigate for different reasons — rather, I just want to remind you that you have options.
In the first piece of this series, I interview a few of my colleagues from college who have embarked on careers in fields other than consulting and finance after graduating.
