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Although the job market facing 2010 graduates looks bleak, the news is not all bad!
It is your luck to be a graduating senior in the worst job market in four decades. You worked hard to get into college. You worked hard to survive and succeed in college. And now when you are about to enter the world of work, there is no work. Yes, this is a lousy job market. According to Dr. Philip Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University, only 27 percent of the 2,500 major employers he surveyed said they have definite plans to hire students from the class of 2010.
While this is not good news, it is not all bad news either. Gardner says opportunities are emerging. That’s good, and as Richard Nelson Bolles writes in “The Job-Hunters Survival Guide,” “There are always jobs out there!” In fact, there are nearly 80,000 jobs out there for the class of 2010, according to the projections of the employers who responded to our Top 100 Employers Survey. But still, your job search is no piece of cake. As Gardner says, there will be lots of competition for the available jobs. So, you have to take this lemon of a job market that you have been given, and make yourself some lemonade.
So, you ask, “How do you do this?” and I say, “By hard work.” Something that you should be accustomed to, or you soon will because you are about to undertake the most important job of your life thus far – the job search.
The employers listed on the following pages have provided the valuable information you will need to launch your job search. Here you have some of the best employers in America. These employers want to recruit a diverse workforce and they want you to check out their employment opportunities, especially those employers that are also advertising in this issue. First, find your major in the “Top 100 Employers by Major” and review the list of employers recruiting in your major. Then, read their ads in this issue. Go to their Web site to explore their career opportunities and diversity initiatives. Then, read, “Tyra Banks Launched Her Career in THE BLACK COLLEGIAN and You Can Too.” This article can serve as your career coach. Follow the advice given.
The Top 100 Employers list gives you a wealth of valuable information. For example, Enterprise Rent-A-Car is hiring 8,000. All of the major accounting firms from PricewaterhouseCoopers to RSM McGladrey are recruiting. Check out the insurance industry, including Northwestern Mutual, State Farm, Liberty Mutual and GEICO, to mention a few. Major laboratories are also hiring. They include Lawrence Livermore, The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics and MIT. We also have newcomers on the list like Verizon, Waste Management, CDM, Covance and others. The list of the Top 100 Employers and the list of the Additional Top Employers for the class of 2010 should be encouraging to you.
The jobs are out there; you just need to do the work. Go to www.blackcollegian.com and www. IMDiversity.com where you can use “Search Jobs” on both sites. When you do your search, you can also click on the Career Site Network and view thousands of additional jobs.
So, while some say the job market is bleak, there are always jobs out there. Just sit down at your computer with a tall glass of lemonade and this issue of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN and find yourself your dream job.
Good luck!
