Graduate Student Confident He Will Find Work.

Greg Boike, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, is confident he will find a job when he graduates despite having read about the lower-than-expected job growth this past March.

“As long as I’m willing to put some time and effort into it I should be able to find something” Greg said.

Greg, who will graduate in May of 2014 with a master’s in public administration with a concentration on local government, said he decided to pursue another degree because his undergraduate majors of political science and geography left him without a clear career path. Greg said his graduate studies have helped him understand that he wants to be involved in city management.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate had dropped nominally from 7.7 percent in February to 7.6 percent in March, but the number of jobs created in March was considerably smaller at 88,000 than it had been previously in January at 148,000 and February at 268,000.

Graphs published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics

But Greg is confident he will find a job. “I don’t think it’ll be easy,” Greg said, “but UGA’s program is one of the best in the country and its graduates have had a very high success rate in the past of finding jobs.”

Greg said that when he finished undergrad last year most of his friends had decided to take an extra year in undergraduate studies, attend graduate school, or attend law school; very few of them had even tried to enter the workforce.