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Article: LANDING A JOB COULD BE HARD WORK FOR STUDENTS
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- Roanoke Times & World News
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- February 23, 2009
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September brought daily news of economic collapse.
But the companies still showed up, recruited students, pitched
opportunities and offered jobs.
Donna Cassell Ratcliffe, director of career services at Virginia
Tech, thought the results were counterintuitive.
"We were watching this," she said. "It was like, 'This isn't
making sense to us in terms of what we see coming.' "
Then, in October, she started hearing about recruiters getting
laid off.
Microsoft, Wachovia and Circuit City cut back on recruiting or
canceled visits to Tech. As unemployment numbers grew, some students
began coming into her office with the resumes of their parents, who
were joining the ranks of the unemployed.
Judging ...