Diana Parsons graduated from the University of Wisconsin and she has still not found a full-time job reports the New York Times. Is this a result of the economy? Actually Ms. Parsons, 21, is jobless by choice. She turned down two jobs because one would require her to relocate and the other required her to work nights.
May college career advisers are noticing that new graduates do not seem to comprehend the economic challenges facing the country was stated in the New York Times). Unemployment is at the highest point in decades and many job recruiters are bypassing university campuses.
“I don’t think the students understand, I really don’t, but come September, October, when they still don’t have jobs, they’re going to be panicky,” said Clarice Wilsey, a career counselor at the University of Oregon. Many students do not understand the impact as they spent most of their college years in a booming economy that went suddenly cold this past year.
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