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AU students Kelly Kaiser and Ben Hayhurst sit in the back of Wendall Serborne's Strategic Management class as the seniors start their job searches now for when they graduate in May in this down market.
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AU seniors Kelly Kaiser and Ben Hayhurst in class. AU senior business students Ben Hayhurst and Kelly Kaiser wonder how a down market will effect their efforts to find jobs when they graduate in May.
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Business students adapt to harsher job market

Economy creates challenges, learning opportunity

By Barrett Newkirk, Herald Bulletin Staff Writer

She has advised students to look for jobs in expanding industries, fields like health care, technology or alternative energy. And Coty said a tough job market means students have to be experts at selling themselves to employers.

“They really have to make sure that their resumes and their interviewing skills are really sharp, and that they can really bring out their strengths,” she said.

Part of that confidence, students said, has come from preparation offered by the university.

Kaiser noted that the anticipation of leaving school and entering the working world is less nerve racking that the feelings she had four years ago as an inexperienced college freshman.

And if an ideal museum gig in Chicago doesn’t come her way, Kaiser said she’s prepared to take other avenues.

“Apply as many places you can and hope something opens up,” she said of her job-search approach.

“Apply, apply, apply. Don’t just bank on one company.”

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