For Ambitious Students, Entrepreneurship Can Be a Big Win:
CHICAGO (MainStreet) -- Amid the commencement speeches and worries about impending student-loan payments, one topic has been a constant source of discussion during college-graduation season: the dismal job market.
This summer, like last summer and the one before, will be a tough time to head out with resume in hand. Many large corporations simply aren't hiring entry-level staff, and in other cases new grads find themselves competing against laid-off workers with more experience.
Graduating from a competitive university or business school is a great accomplishment. But leaving school with funding for the next step of your life is the ultimate graduation present.
Ambitious young grads who'd prefer to work for themselves also are finding it hard to start businesses, given banks' tight lending standards. The difference between starting up and giving up often comes down to funding: Can a promising idea attract enough capital to turn an idea into reality?
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CHICAGO (MainStreet) -- Amid the commencement speeches and worries about impending student-loan payments, one topic has been a constant source of discussion during college-graduation season: the dismal job market.
This summer, like last summer and the one before, will be a tough time to head out with resume in hand. Many large corporations simply aren't hiring entry-level staff, and in other cases new grads find themselves competing against laid-off workers with more experience.
Graduating from a competitive university or business school is a great accomplishment. But leaving school with funding for the next step of your life is the ultimate graduation present.
Ambitious young grads who'd prefer to work for themselves also are finding it hard to start businesses, given banks' tight lending standards. The difference between starting up and giving up often comes down to funding: Can a promising idea attract enough capital to turn an idea into reality?
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