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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. January 15. 1993
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Jobs increase in county
Patrick Tompkins / KANSAN
Lisa Fern of Baldwin completes an application form to register with Manpower Temporary Services. Manpower screens potential employees and places them in jobs that match their abilities.
By Todd Selfert
Kansan staff writer
The number of jobs in Douglas County have increased steadily since 1987, according to a recent report issued by the Kansas Department of Human Resources.
But experts say the job growth has held few benefits for KU graduates and students seeking part-time employment.
The report, which was published in the January 1993 issue of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce newsletter, said job growth increased by 18 percent during the five-year period. The national average was 6 percent.
Norm Clifford, director of forecasting for the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research on campus, said in the newsletter that the county could expect a3.1 percent job growth rate for 1993. That would be 1,200 jobs.
Gary Toebben, chamber president,
say the service sector grew faster
"Nationwide, companies haven't been able to create as many jobs as are needed to keep up with the number of new people added to the workforce," he said. "In this area, we've been able to keep up. Our unemployment rate is only around 3 percent."
"I think we're following a nationwide trend in that respect," Toebben said. "There are more women working these days, and there are also more single-parent families. More people need more assistance in areas
Job opportunities in business services involving consulting and accounting also continued to grow. Toobben said.
Frederick Madaus, director of the School of Business Placement Center, said the optimistic numbers might not necessarily be good news for KU students.
"Those numbers don't have much of an affect on KU graduates because a very small percentage of KU graduates go to work in Lawrence," Madaus
said. "Most people leave the area after graduation. They go to work in Topeka or Kansas City."
Madaus said graduates worked in those locations because more positions for which they were trained and in which they were interested were there.
Terry Glenn, director of the University Placement Center, said the number of students being placed in fulltime, permanent positions across the country had declined.
"The recession certainly is to blame for that," Glenn said. "The recession hit the East Coast and the West Coast
first and didn't have much of an impact here. It took a while for us to feel the effects. It's been a tough year and a half."
The number of companies coming on campus to interview and recruit students has declined during the last few years, he said.
"We are planning to work with the Chamber of Commerce to help graduates find local employment," Glenn said. "Right now those relations are informal. We hope to work with them to find graduates employment in the area."
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