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VT Edition: Jaye Roseborough & Pamela Gardner on the college senior job search

Tuesday, 04/21/09 2:11pm

Jane Lindholm

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Each quarter, labor statistics report sobering news of the number of jobs the economy has lost. For college seniors, finding job amid competition with jobless professionals is especially daunting. It leaves some graduates debating whether to take jobs outside their field of study, pursue unpaid internships or consider offers they'd prefer not to take.

VPR's Jane Lindholm talks with Jaye Roseborough, Executive Director of Career Services at Middlebury College and Pamela Gardner, Director of Career Services at the University of Vermont about the career decisions facing college seniors, and how to search for jobs in a down economy.

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