Howdy!

I graduated this past May with an M.S. in Agricultural Economics. A general sense of what I studied was econometrics, economic theory, finance, agricultural policy, and real estate/land economics. My most recent work experience was as a community assistant for three years with an apartment complex, working in various capacities such as leasing, addressing account concerns, and assisting in day-to-day property management activities. I briefly worked in a summer research assistant role as well. Regretfully, I never took a summer internship mostly due to blackout periods for my job which took up the back end of the summer.

Since graduation, I have had a handful of interviews and advanced to the final round a couple of times with a commercial real estate company but have yet to land an offer. I am open to most analyst or coordinator roles. Pricing analyst positions I feel may be the most applicable to me but I am also interested in financial analyst roles as well. I would love to work within the agricultural, real estate, and manufacturing industries. Because of their ties to agriculture, grocery chains and food and beverage producers are also priority targets for me. I live in east Texas but I am very open to relocation throughout the state, though preferably in the DFW, Houston, or San Antonio area.

I have spent most of my time (aside from job searching) learning career skills to help boost my profile. I believe my lack of relevant experience is a primary factor behind my unsuccessful job search thus far and so I am very willing to work in a "lower-level" position to get some experience under my belt.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks and Gig'em!

Look into becoming a grain merchandiser with having the M.S. in Ag Econ. Most of time the big grain companies (ADM, Cargill, Bunge, Viterra, J.D. Heiskell) are looking for recent graduates to put into their training programs. You having customer service experience is also a plus. The only downside is that for some of these companies you might have to move out of state for a little bit because they want you to get origination experience in the corn belt.

It is a fun and rewarding job, there's not too many other jobs out there where you can be fresh out of college and start making deals worth 8 figures regularly(at a shuttle loader/unloader). You also get to be around AG constantly and meet a lot of neat people along the way.

Check out aa.com for positions in revenue management. These are in their Fort Worth Texas headquarters.