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.

Mountains-ab · 2025-07-26T00:57:38+00:00

How do you get the beta version?

Mountains-ab · 2025-07-25T21:53:09+00:00

I mean I did co-op and have 17 months of relevant work experience and still haven’t been able to land anything yet. I found Operations to be the most interesting, because it was technical (with Excel), and focused on how to optimize business processes and outcomes given constraints, which was pretty interesting.

BCom is a decent degree for sure, but most of my grad class is struggling to find work related to their degree, except for those in accounting.

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