A COVID-19 triggered hiring freeze has posed some unforeseeable challenges for recent agriculture graduates.
Referring to her 5 month job search, Illinois native Jill Parrent says, “To be brutally honest, it is emotionally exhausting, it is mentally exhausting and it is one of the most challenging things I have ever done in my life.”
Parrent is a recent graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Agriculture Communications from Iowa State University. She tells Brownfield COVID-19 related economic impacts, work from home policies and event cancellations have created hiring uncertainties for many ag businesses.
