These have been some of the scarier headlines: "The entry-level job market is the worst it's been in 37 years," said Fortune Magazine. "Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years," read the New York Times. The job market is." It's not the job market we faced even two years ago, and definitely not what we were working with post-COVID, right, with the hiring surge." Bill Zeeble / KERA / KERA Katie Dabney, marketing major with two minors and numerous, successful internships, graduated recently from SMU.