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Recession makes job search like
full-time work for recent grads
Ten. thousand dollars,
one dorm room, three
apartments, one gold
fish and six roommates later
now what9
For the average student
who has spent time — 4 to 5
years in school to get a bach
elor s degree and a consid
erable amount of money,
peeking around the corner to
take a good look at future em
ployment opportunities takes
guts
You get all excited be
cause you (see) all these
things you can do and then re
alize that the job may be
there, but there aren’t any
openings," said a recent grad
uate Christina Weiss It's the
hardest thing to keep your
confidence up "
Weiss, a sociology major
who graduated in March, has
just begun her job search, and
she like a lot of other gradu
ates is finding that getting a
job during a recession is no
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easy task
I'm feeling scared that i
might need to go to graduate
school Weiss said adding
that she always considered
graduate school something
that a person would do later
in life, but not right after grad
uation
Weiss said she now real
izes that "once you get your
bachelor s they're not going
to offer you a job on a silver
platter'
At the University about
1.900 students are expected
to receive bachelor s degrees
at the end of this term
Career Planning and Place
ment Services director. Larry
Smith, said Weiss' considers
tion ot graduate school is
typical behavior for recent
graduates who are |ob hunt
ing during a recessionary peri
od
Smith said that a recession
means there are |obs but
they're very competitive Stu
dents .ire sometimes t,t- c l
with asking themselves if it s
better to be in grad si bool
than a maintenance job. he
said
He suggests that student:,
who are unable or don't want
to go to graduate school, find
a job but then work on build
mg up specific |ob skills
such as computer skills by
taking a computer class
Smith said that economists
consider the Pacific North
west a hot bed of job opportu
mties, but the University has
experienced a 14 percent do
clme in the number of cornpa
mes that have recruited on
campus this year which does
not make it feel very warm,
he said
Some experts have said
that keying into national job
trends and employ m e n t
growth areas is one way to
predict where the jobs are.
rather than |ust looking to one
area of the country
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