Covid-19 Crashes the Class of 2020
Job offers rescinded. Financial independence delayed. On the eve of graduation, college seniors tell The Information how their professional prospects have changed almost overnight.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Until a few months ago, college seniors were looking forward to entering a robust economy. Many were interviewing for jobs and internships, and some had already secured them.
But with weeks or days left in their final year of college, the class of 2020 is facing bleak employment prospects, even in the once thriving technology sector. Shreya Shah, a graduating senior studying finance and entrepreneurship at the private business school Babson College in Massachusetts, lost out for a job at Salesforce, where she had previously interned, to someone with five years of experience who had recently been laid off.