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Article: Houston Chronicle Working Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 11, 2003
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By L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 11--Tiffany Edwards remembers how hot the economy was four years ago when she arrived at the University of Houston.
Employers were everywhere looking to sign up the new crop of graduates. The big topics on campus were signing bonuses and how to weigh multiple job offers.
Edwards was looking forward to landing one of those good jobs. Unfortunately, instead of graduating in one of the best years in a generation, she's graduating in one of the worst.
"We have to beg and call and hound employers, `Please take my resume! Please call me back!'" said the finance ...