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Thursday, March 27, 2003
nation
AGGIEU :
THE BATTAlj;
Recent grads face J.S.
bleak job market bitf;
By Diane Carroll
KRT CAMPUS
omy would turn
companies restructured.
This time, it is
KANSAS CITY — Spring
break traditionally is a time for
college students to escape their
burdens and loll on sunny
beaches.
Amanda Denning has
friends at the University of
Kansas who will carry out that
custom in Acapulco, Mexico,
and she could go with them.
But with the job market for col
lege graduates shaping up as
the worst in a decade, Denning
instead decided to visit compa
nies in Austin, Texas.
She is setting up “informa
tional interviews" in the public
relations field, hoping they will
lead to job interviews,
"I have friends who graduated
with the very same major as mine
last year, mid they still are look
ing,” said Denning, 22, who will
graduate in May. “It’s very scary.”
The booming job market of
the late 1990s started to give way
early in 2001 and soured signifi
cantly last year. This year it is
even tighter. The bumpy econo
my and war with Iraq have dis
solved earlier hopes that things
might turn around this spring,
said Philip Gardner, director of
the Collegiate Employment
Research Institute at Michigan
State University.
“Everything is on hold,”
Gardner said. “I have employers
who say they have intentions to
hire. They just don't know when.”
Some companies are hiring,
they said, but not in the num
bers of the past.
Graduates are in relatively the
same fix as their counterparts
were 10 years ago with the reces
sion of the early 1990s, according
to Gardner and others. The differ
ence, they said, is that 10 years
ago everyone knew that the econ-
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when things will snake onji | ; ‘
Douglas Buchanan, dire® I thE A s s 0 (1A!
!e battalk
The pair of rep
[the Commerce
Idnesday highly
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The reports
pruary was a
nth for the ge
said Lynn I
nomist at Banc
pital Manageme
I negative effe
ather, worries
career services at the Um
of Missouri-KansasCity. WASHINGTOt
“Now it's like everybi jther and prew
waiting on something,’’Buell toll on the (
said. “Everything depeni jruary: New^j
everything else.” ■nged to the kv
1 hat inability to pteiiBrly three years;
turnaround also weit lifers saw their dei
Gardner. Because of it. tii
“in all my (20) yearsof
this. 1 haven't been qu
pessimistic.”
In August, a survey bym is hittillg
National Association ofColp“THp rgn
and Employers showed
employers expected to liiri
percent fewer graduates
spring. When the survey
updated in December, one-
of the respondents said
planned additional cutbacks
'■A iMofkidsaitlwCkding war »
hard and still coming up « ,
said Camille Luckenbauglt
association's employment in)
mation manager.
“Last year people werete
the first quarter of this yearra
be a turning point, but that isiB^ 1 T ,
h w f i I JU. i Ncit came (
appening. We keep hoping
see a spark somewhere, hit i
just haven't seen it yet.”
The average offer to com]
science graduates sank 111
cent, from $51,429 in
2002 to $44,678 this
Starting salaries slipped
engineering disciplines
increased about 1 percentfotl
eral arts graduates. p,/-
Although the overallfe ^ WdlMb d
picture looks glum, gradual® JCCindtionS
education, health care and t)
food industry are among to ^STIN (AP) —
who should fare better than it)/ ntrol issued an
area universities repoiii lalth has notified
Graduates in computer see alth departments
technology and consultingta disease should r
bleaker prospects. | f 1e CDC issued it
'accinators also
immu
trease in oil p
dine in the stock
New-home sale
percent to a
usted annual rah
lowest level s
n steeper, 1.
line in January.
There was a hu,
t drop in the
ich was hard I
ms during the
d teivingthe
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