[jsfg_cinti] Grads see brighter job prospects

Are things improving?
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Grads see brighter job prospects
By Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON ? Good news, Mom and Dad. Your soon-to-be college graduate might not 
have to move back home, after all.

After years of barely any activity, the job market for college seniors and 
graduate students finally appears to be picking up. Firms are interviewing 
more, giving more offers and even bumping up pay a bit. 
 
 Megan Wasserman graduates soon, but she already has a production assistant job 
for the Dr. Phil show.  
Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY 

While the market is nowhere near as strong as in the late 1990s ? when the job 
market was so hot, firms were recruiting on beer-soaked beaches during spring 
break ? a turnaround definitely appears to be taking shape.

"It is starting to pick up," says Carol Lyons, dean of career services at 
Northeastern University in Boston. "Not in any drastic way; in a slow, 
hopefully steady, way."

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Details at:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/jobcenter/jobhunt/2004-04-13-grad-job-outlook_x.htm

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