GRADUATION ISSUE
University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1984
Page 7
Job market looks rosier for flexible graduates
By SHANE HILLS Staff Reporter
May graduates of many schools at the University of Kansas can expect a job market that demands flexibility and a willingness to relocate in small, rural communities, according to administrators from several schools.
This is especially true for education, journalism and music education gradient.
However, the economy has improved enough since last year to loosen the job market somewhat and spark optimism from all the schools.
MORE INDUSTRIAL AND business recruiters from rapidly growing Sun Belt states, particularly Texas, came to the University to interview this year than last, said Fred Madaua, place director for the KU School of Business.
"Kansas and Missouri will take the lion's share of our people, but Texas runs a strong third place," he said. "Dallas is the most active because of its tremendous growth. Kansas City is still the most popular, though."
Madaua said he had seen a "fair movement" of graduates to the Sun
Despite a looser job market, entry-
salary salaries have not jumped. Madaus
Madaua said most business majors would enter the market at about $250 per hour.
ates, who will start at about $1,625 per month.
"The fact that industrial and public markets exist for accountants tends to reduce the degree of control."
Another field directly tied to the economy is architecture. People are in a buying mood because of lower interest rates and therefore more building is taking place.
The associate dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, Dennis Domer, said he had received more calls for architects this year than ever before.
"I's never been better." he said.
"The private sector is working extensively. There's more money available than we can do so than working on public projects."
Pam Madi, placement director for the School of Engineering, said that other entry-level engineers can expect to earn between $25,000 and $28,000 a week.
AN ENTRY-LEVEL ARCHITECT will earn about $17,000 a year. Architectural engineers can plan on earning about $20,000. Domer said.
"Other vocations such as dentistry, medicine, veterinary medicine and nursing are filling up, in fact overflowing, in this part of the state, and particularly in this community," he said.
Madi said electrical and mechanical engineers faced the best market this year. Petroleum engineering graduates will find their job search more difficult. "The oil and gas industry is still depressed," she said.
Graduates of another applied science school, the School of Pharmacy, have faced a consistently good market for Tom Hitchcock, assistant to the dean.
He said that because of the pharmacy school at the University of Missouri — Kansas City, it was more difficult to attend in Kansas City or Lawrence.
SALARIES FOR GRADUATES of schools that prepare graduates for more socially oriented occupations, such as the School of Social Welfare, the School of Education, the School of Fine Arts, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, will tend to be lower than $20,000 a year, administrators from these schools said.
Edith Black, assistant dean of the School of Social Welfare, said social workers would have more opportunities this year because of a movement in the last three years to teach mental health persons to care for themselves.
the effort to teach them to care for themselves is lost in the institutions," she said. "Besides, keeping someone in an institution is very expensive."
However, he said many opportunities exist in Texas and Florida. Entry-level pharmacists will earn from $20,000 to $30,000 a year.
Graduates of the School of Education can expect to find teaching positions in rural communities more easily than in metropolitan areas, said Terry Glenn.
assistant director of the University Placement Center.
The market will be best for teachers or math, physics, chemistry, language. This is the most important part of the job.
Salaries for entry-level teachers range from $1,300 to $1,500 a year, but up to $2,000 more in western Kansas, where they are trying to attract teachers, he said.
RUDOLF RADOCY, PROFESSOR of music education, said that music education graduates should find jobs more easily. "If they are flexible as far as what they are willing to teach — band, chorus, general music — they will have a good chance in small towns and rural areas," he said.
Michael Young, an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said graduates of the college were more flexible in their knowledge than graduates who had been trained for a specific vocation.
Flexibility, said Dana Leibengood, associate dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, will benefit journalism graduates because jobs are tight in metropolitan areas, but, he said, "We've had more requests for reporters and copy editors than we can fill."
"Our graduates study basic science, not applied science," he said. "Thereafter, they can do a wide range of things related to their major. Corporations must invest upward job mobility is an advantage to having liberal arts graduates."
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I'M FINALLY OUTTA HERE.
I can't believe it. Four long years and two hot and sticky summer semesters here, and provided I get through my finals, it's all over. And yet, it all seems like it were yesterday.
Like the time I went to my first KU-K State football game, Man, was that a wild night. We celebrated my 21st birthday at Gammons, too. That was crazy. And it seems like yesterday that I first met Marcia there. Her I'll miss. And when we went down to Gammons on the last day of classes...oh yeah. That was yesterday.
I sure spent a lot of time at that club. Weird how it
Well, at least I've got one more night to howl Gammons has this big party for grads on commencement night. It's sort of a tradition around here, and now it's my turn. And after that, kiss the club and school goodbye forever.
can all end, just like that.
Hmm. That doesn't sound so hot. I had my fun at school, and I'm done with it. But never go to Gammons again? Nahh. I'd rather flag a final.
Well anyway, I guess I've just about rocked my last chalk. So long, KU. Thanks for the memories. But Gammons, I'll be seeing you sooner or later. Sooner, if I don't find a job.
CONGRATULATIONS, GRADS. THANKS FOR YOUR LOYAL PATRONAGE COMMENCEMENT NIGHT, BRING MOM, DAD AND THE KIDS AND CELEBRATE YOUR FIRST NIGHT AS AN ALUM WITH US! COMPLIMENTARY CHAMPAGNE AT THE DOOR AND OUR FAMOUS FREE HORS D'OEURVES (CHICKEN, MEATBALLS, NACHOS, ETC.). DOORS OPEN RIGHT AFTER COMMENCEMENT . . SEE YOU THERE!
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