Mortgage Lending vs Commercial Insurance Underwriter

Hello,

This is my second post here and I was curious to gain advice from others here at WSO. I understand it is the holidays time, so responses may take time to come.

Since I am recent graduate, I am having trouble find a position for about 7 months now, I saw that there were licenses which seemed interesting to me, before I took them I was curious based on your expertise which industry has a better outlook. I was thinking of getting a MLO Mortgage Licensing Officer license maybe that may help me get an entry-level job in the mortgage industry or as a broker associate/underwriter associate.

Which of those licenses and industries are worth going into as a new graduate?

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