(L | A) 58% of students who graduated (college) within the past year are still looking for a job, per FORTUNE
... graduates are being frozen out of the workforce; about 58% of students who graduated within the past year are still looking for their first job, according to a recent report from Kickresume. The labor market and hiring situation have become so bad that more than a third of all graduates now say their degree was a “waste of money,” according to a 2025 survey from Indeed.
Gen Z graduates are so massively unemployed, despite making up only 5% of the workforce, that they’re even pushing up the U.S. jobless rate—having an “oversize” impact on America’s unemployment rate.
The youngest generation of workers is especially downtrodden by their prospects, with 51% expressing remorse for getting their certificates, compared to 41% of millennials and 20% of baby boomers.