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CAREER NEWS Employment Opportunities for College Graduates: 2000-2005
College graduates with marketing and science skills will be the most sought after by employers in the year 2005, according to a new report just published by the Office of Higher Education Programs (HEP) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). This report is the fifth in a series of 5-year employment opportunities, projections. "We're expecting slightly more job opportunities than there will be students to fill those jobs,"said Allan Goecker, associate director of academic programs in the Purdue University School of Agriculture and principal author of Employment Opportunities for College Graduates in the Food and Agriculture Sciences, 2000-2005.
Annual job openings for U.S. food and agricultural sciences graduates are projected to be around 58,000 while the number of graduates for those jobs will be about 57,000. Jobs in marketing, merchandising, and sales will comprise about 28 percent of the employment postings or 16,240 jobs. More information about the report results and the study methodology can be found at the following higher education information website: Employment Opportunities for College Graduates
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