Nearly the middle of July, and still no job. It's getting steadily more discouraging and depressing as the summer slips by and I remain unemployed.

Personally, I think the government could be doing more to both help and encourage recent graduates find jobs in their area for which they are qualified. Don’t get me wrong - the Graduate Mentorship Program offered by the provincial government is a great thing to have, and I hope others are benefiting from it. Unfortunately, the jobs offered are jobs for which I'm not remotely qualified for. As of July 9th for example, the program had job openings for a welder, a senior accountant, and a mechanical technologist.

All the job cuts by both the federal and provincial governments aren't helping either, since it seems a lot of the positions being eliminated were the positions which bachelor of arts graduates might have hoped for. The writing, research and critical thinking skills I learned at university are, it seems, out of fashion.

I understand that the economy is partly to blame for the cuts, but I believe that all levels of government should be ensuring that young people have access to jobs in their area. This may seem overly idealistic, but programs that address this might help stem the flood of recent graduates leaving P.E.I. to find work in the bigger centres.