B.Keywords
getting jobs, boom, this year, different, economy.
Vocabulary
scrounge, escalate, rescind, recruit.
You're going to hear 4 people talking about the employment situation for college graduates at different times. Fill in the chart with the keywords.
I remember people graduating last year and they were already getting jobs coming at them like six, seven different positions at once and now it's like people are scrounging for what they can get.
My bother got out of college just a few years ago, and that's when the boom is still going and he, he did pretty well.
I just kind of imagined it escalating and getting easier, easier and easier, but no such luck.
Sociology major Keren Aloya graduates from Rutgers this year with a four year degree and no job, an unwelcome and growing trend among her classmates nationwide, some of whom are even having their offers rescinded.
This year is a little bit different for college graduates because the economy has changed and it's changed dramatically during the course of the recruiting season.
Companies in the battered tech sector like Cisco, Intel and Dell has slowed college recruiting.
They have also reneged on jobs offers made to college graduates, offering the suddenly unhired apology bonuses instead.