December Job Losses Should Motivate the Class of 2009

The ADP National Employment Report revealed today another 693,000 jobs lost in December 2008, indicating an even weaker economy that anticipated. Read full story here. What does this news mean for college seniors getting ready to graduate in May?

The graduating class of 2009 is going to face an extremely competitive job market. More competitive perhaps than anything we’ve seen in the past several decades. Less jobs, more candidates means that it’s more important than ever to start your job search early.

To help you get started check out the resources available at www.GradtoGreat.com. To review companies that hire college grads, take a look here.

If you want to search specific jobs available right now, take a look at www.careers.org.

GradtoGreat.com is starting a blog!

Beth and I are excited about our new blog for GradtoGreat.com. If you’ve visited our web site in the last few months you know we’ve taken a brief hiatus to attend to some family business. In September we were devastated to lose our father to lung cancer. And more recently (some good news),  we both had baby girls. My daughter Hannah was born in mid-October, and Beth’s little girl Josie (named after our dad Joe) was born in late November.

While it’s been a chaotic last few months, we’re looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. Our quarterly newsletter will be out again in January, and we’ll formally launch our blog at that time as well. We look forward to hearing more success stories from recent grads about their experiences finding jobs in a very challenging market.