posted March 20, 2006 07:07 PM            

"We are approaching full employment and some employers are already dreaming up perks to attract the best talent," said John Challenger, chief executive of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

In its annual outlook of entry-level jobs, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said strong job growth and falling unemployment makes this spring the hottest job market for America's 1.4 million college graduates since the dot-com collapse in 2001.

The firm pointed to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers which showed employers plan to hire 14.5 percent more new college graduates than a year ago.

The survey also found higher starting salaries this year. Graduates with economic or finance degrees will see the biggest gain with starting salaries up 11 percent to $45,191, while accounting salaries are up 6.2 percent, business management salaries up 3.9 percent and pay for civil engineers 4.3 percent higher.

But Challenger said graduates should not assume the improved labor market will guarantee everyone a job.

"Even as demand and salaries rise, college students should not be lulled into thinking that the job search will be easy or that jobs will be handed to anyone with a degree," he warned.

The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 4.8 percent in February from a 4-1/2-year low 4.7 percent in January, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Employers added 243,000 new payroll jobs in the month.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-03-20T163503Z_01_N20258421_RTRUKOC_0_US-ECONOMY-JOBS.xml&rpc=22

Hmmmm.......

posted March 20, 2006 11:12 PM            

They've described the economy is terms of a depression, a troubled economy, a slow or slowing economy, a problem economy, an economy on the verge of collapse.

I wonder what they know that the business community doesn't know? The business community which invests in equipment, in inventory, in infrastructure and in personnel.

posted March 20, 2006 11:32 PM              

what about Farms/agriculture..advancing technology that is Earth friendly..as work to improve our MOther Earth..

we have to re-verse in some ways..we can't continue to take take take..and not fix fix fix..and not replenish replenish replenish..the damage we have caused..

is it all about the high paying jobs? Is that more important?

posted March 21, 2006 12:51 PM            

We keep pushing for globalization and shutting down our Ag so that we can be supplemented by China, Argentina and elsewhere..

We have too many people here yelling and screaming that a cow fart will decimate the ozone layer therefore we need to shut down the ranches so that China's cows can fart us into an ozone depletion. People don't understand that running farming out of the US may make a few things okay in their eyes, but that production just gets picked up by another country. Usually that country (Like CHINA) doesn't have the same strict rules we do in treating the cows / chicken...etc... or the pesticide restrictions on crops.

So yeah, maybe we won't have any GMO's but hell, we can have a feast of dioxin flavored apples.

Petron, your answer to just too snide without substance.

I am sure that is because you have a penis. If you had a vagina you would know better. LMAO... (Just kidding dude )

Hell..I didn't even know that you were male.

posted March 21, 2006 01:29 PM              

And

Stop taking a pop at me when I have had the grace to apologise for upsetting the gents. They were brave enough to admit I had irked them and I was woman enough to say sorry.

Come on now.....drop it will ya

You are not funny.....

posted March 21, 2006 04:41 PM            

If people can make fun of the President to jwhop, why would you be exempt? I have had plenty of people throw back my words - or better yet, cut and paste only part of a sentence to make me look a certain way. It's the way it is and probably will be for a while.

Some of the things that are off limits usually entail race, gender, sexual orientation and using someone astrology sign against them.

posted March 21, 2006 07:07 PM              

Thanks for explaining the rules....I was unaware they were so rigid and stringent....

Worse than being at fecking school....

HAHAHAHA....

Bunch of jokers ye are......

Enjoy yourselves then !!!!!!

posted March 21, 2006 11:28 PM              

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when it's a roaring, booming economy for the last three

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Come visit rural Iowa and then tell me what you think alright?