A My Career Transitions panel held on Saturday at Penn State’s Great Valley campus provided employment advice to Montgomery County’s highly educated unemployed, writes Jane M. Von Bergen for Philly.com.

Around 185 people listened to four human resource managers offer support and networking organization for people who have lost their jobs or want a change.

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Sixty-six-year-old Marie John who lives in Jeffersonville and has a master’s degree in behavioral health attended the event. She has been unemployed for a year.

After working as a vocational counselor for Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor, John said that it has been hard to find a job “because I have a master’s degree and the salary range is very low in this field.”

At 28 percent, Montgomery County has the second highest unemployment rate of highly educated people out of the 130 largest counties nationwide.

However, Jennifer Butler, executive director of MontcoWorks, said that the highly educated demographics of the unemployed did not surprise her.

“Montco is an affluent and highly educated county, so it makes sense our unemployment would be the same,” she said.

Read more about the panel at Philly.com by clicking here.

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