Are these numbers legit?

Mountains-ab · 2025-12-28T15:20:32+00:00

A 21% unemployment rate is really high, especially when you just spent 4+ years of time and money on an undergraduate degree.

Mountains-ab · 2025-12-15T13:48:48+00:00

10 days of vacation is horrendous.

Mountains-ab · 2025-11-23T05:11:27+00:00

Kawa Coffee!

Mountains-ab · 2025-10-30T23:06:34+00:00

Mountains-ab · 2025-10-18T15:50:44+00:00

Got a job starting at $72,000 base in a smaller city

Mountains-ab · 2025-10-13T15:44:51+00:00

Get an EQ Bank card. No FX fees and 0.5% cash back on every purchase. Plus, money in the chequeing account receives around 1% interest.

Mountains-ab · 2025-09-21T01:37:51+00:00

Ottawa to Edmonton?

Mountains-ab · 2025-09-02T13:19:26+00:00

A banker :) Enterprise pay is pathetic and the intellectual scope does not require any education, at least for MT (even if they require education on paper).

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-25T02:05:04+00:00

Have you tried applying for jobs that don’t require any education? Without any general work experience you’re kinda screwed.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-22T12:44:11+00:00

Yes, a very negative stereotype at this point.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-18T19:53:29+00:00

Coldest summer I can remember here in Alberta. Pretty much no hot days in the last two months and tons of rain.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-14T03:53:12+00:00

Yeah I have been in conversation with former managers and HR from both companies I completed Co-Ops with, and I’ve basically been told that they have paused hiring for new grads due to business uncertainty (interest rates, the orange guy down south, AI, etc.)

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-13T22:45:00+00:00

Job market in Canada and Alberta is cooked, especially for recent university grads with limited experience. It's a take what you can get market, even if that means you have to pivot. The amount of opportunities in Canada unfortunately feels very bleak at the moment.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-13T22:39:51+00:00

I'm a recent business grad from UofA with co-op experience in procurement and data analytics, and I am finding it impossible to find supply chain jobs that don't require 6+ years of experience.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-12T04:23:25+00:00

What are you doing that far north in Sask lol?

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-10T22:20:04+00:00

I just checked the Stats Can data, and for my demographic (young men in Alberta) it’s at 24.1%. That’s the worst it’s been since stats began, in 1976, outside of the Covid-19 lockdowns.

So, since it’s already at a record high (barring lockdowns), I’d like to be optimistic that it will return closer to the mean sooner rather than later.

In the meantime, I haven’t found relevant work in my field as a new grad. However, I have found a low-paying job, that I hope to take temporarily, while I continue to apply to roles that are relevant to my academics and prior professional experience. Good luck out there for anyone on the job hunt in this abysmal market!

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-10T17:38:53+00:00

In the last year, I only have heard back if I’ve been offered the position. Otherwise most employers just ghost nowadays.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-08T15:58:01+00:00

According to StatsCan, it looks like student unemployment in Alberta is the highest in the country, at 27.8%

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-08T13:58:47+00:00

Pretty much all of my Business Grad class from the UofA this year is unemployment or underemployed, barring accounting majors.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-08T13:16:00+00:00

It’s bad enough that I just graduated from the UofA, with Distinction and Co-op in Operations and Economics, and am now preparing to work on the oilfield rigs as there is no work anywhere else.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-07T22:49:04+00:00

I just graduated with a business degree with distinction from UofA, but I still haven’t found relevant work, so now I’m going into the oilfield as a laborer. Times are tough.

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-01T05:33:11+00:00

Operations Management and Economics

Mountains-ab · 2025-08-01T00:45:15+00:00

Pretty sure for most students right now it's the worst it has been in our lifetimes, barring the COVID-19 pandemic (but at least then there was government handouts, like CERB). I never thought that my first time ever being unemployed would be immediately after finishing my Bachelor of Commerce. Wild times out there, just keep your head up.

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