Surveys: Most local college grads finding employment

The News Review:

- Surveys: Most local college grads finding employment
- If your teen is looking for summer job come to employment fair …
- Graduate jobs search demands more
- Library hosts talk on employment services
- Accountancy career bright spots despite a gloomy economic forecast
- The Delta Dental of New Jersey Careers Center pens at Newark’s …

Surveys: Most local college grads finding employment
Leader-Telegram
Thirty-five percent are employed in other parts of Wisconsin while 24 percent are working in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area she said. UW-Stout graduates reported a 96 percent employment rate up to a year after leaving campus. The 2007-08 annual report by UW-Stout’s Career Services also showed that in 13 of UW-Stout’s 34 majors graduates found employment or continued their education 100 percent of the time. The report covers students who graduated in December 2007 May 2008 and August 2008. “The report shows that a degree from UW-Stout is almost a guarantee of a job even in a challenging marketplace” said Chancellor Charles W.

If your teen is looking for summer job come to employment fair …
The Flint Journal – MLive.com
That puts more importance on the $3. 6 million obtained through federal stimulus money to help place about 900 youths into jobs in the nonprofit and government sector this summer. About 700 of the jobs will go to Genesee County youth while 200 are earmarked for those in Shiawassee County. Those aged 14 to 24 are eligible for the minimum-wage work. “It’s a tough market right now” said Sharon Bowen of Career Alliance. “Adults are going after positions that normally youth would go after.
Related from Restorehousatonic: Cohasset Recreation Fair loads of fun – PHT GALLERY

Graduate jobs search demands more
BBC News
The Royal Bank of Scotland Halifax Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB all exhibited at a similar graduate fair at the same venue last ctober. Their decision not to attend this week’s event suggests there may be no graduate jobs left to promote. Websites advertising graduate employment at RBS and Lloyd’s TSB say the banks were overwhelmed by demand for jobs beginning in 2009. The banks were unable to provide details of the number of graduates they will take on this year. The AGR’s February survey predicted a 28% drop in banking vacancies this year. Perhaps tellingly the Financial Services Authority is attending the event for the first time in four years while HM Treasury is exhibiting for the first time. The FSA said it had filled all its graduate vacancies for 2009 but was attending to encourage students to apply in 2010.

Library hosts talk on employment services
Scituate Mariner
on Wednesday May 27. The program will take place at Scituate Town Library 85 Branch St. Elliott has more than 34 years experience in the workforce development field including experience in career counseling.

Accountancy career bright spots despite a gloomy economic forecast
Career FAQs
Whether it’s finance IT retail communications or entertainment it’s a safe bet that an accountant is behind the scenes keeping the books balanced and the business on a sound economic footing. Despite this some accountants are finding themselves out of work. It’s not all bright out thereAs many employment sectors are copping a battering from the global financial crisis so too accountancy jobs have not been immune to the financial fallout. Most of Australia’s big accounting firms have swung the axe in recent months. PricewaterhouseCoopers cut 170 staff in January and about 30 before Christmas while Ernst & Young and KPMG have also sacked a number of tax accountants. These have been mainly ‘first wave’ cuts where the companies have made strategic decisions to exit some of their business programs and the accountants employed in them have lost their jobs. In addition accounting graduate positions are down a whopping 64 per cent according to the livier Job Index.

The Delta Dental of New Jersey Careers Center pens at Newark’s …
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Approximately 26 students will gain the skills to work in the dental field through school-based and work-based experiences. The students will learn about dental science including how to use dental materials instruments and techniques. Additionally safety employment skills professionalism and applicative law are a major focus of the student’s learning. This program has been running for five years. ne of the leading factors to the evolution of dentistry is the increasingly important role of dental assistants.

Leave a Reply