Wednesday, May 2, 2001
The University Daily Kansan: GRADUATION ISSUE
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High job growth linked to population surges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—There is plenty of work to be found in Las Vegas.
Clark County, Nev., home to Las Vegas, had one of the highest rates of job growth among the country's largest counties between 1998 and 1999, according to Census Bureau reports being released today.
Other counties with high job growth tended to be in the South and West, including Fulton County, Ga., which encompasses Atlanta; Travis County, Texas, which includes Austin; and San Diego County, Calif.
Despite population growth and the recently unsettled economy, there still aren't enough workers to fill jobs in many of those counties, said Jane Whisner, managing director of the Eastridge Group of Staffing Companies in Las Vegas. Businesses must get more creative with benefits packages to lure and retain people, she said.
"You can attract people monetarily, but benefits that enhance quality of life retain them," Whisner said.
Whisher said the job growth data is the latest
The job growth available, and was separate from the 2000 census. But it is not surprising that the 2000 head count showed that most of the top counties in job growth saw their populations surge over the past decade, said Mark Mather, an
County, Nev., was up 8.7 percent between 1998 and 1999, according to the Census Bureau report. Nationally, there was 2.4 percent job growth during that period.
"You can attract people monetarily, but benefits that enhance quality of life retain them."
life retain them."
Jane Whisner
analyst with the Population Reference Bureau, a private research group.
managing director of the Eastridge Group of Staffing Companies in Los Angeles
Many of the counties saw large increases in their Hispanic population. Many recently arrived immigrants filled positions in construction and low-wage, service-oriented areas, Mather said.
Nonfarm employment in Clark
Las Vegas
The 2000 census showed that Clark County's population surged 86 percent over the last decade to nearly 1.4 million. Its Hispanic population went up 264 percent.
casino industry helped spark growth in other fields as well, said Robert Hudson, a manager with Labor Ready Inc., a provider of temporary manual labor for light industrial businesses in Las Vegas.
"It's been pretty busy," Hudson said. "We get all types of people from all parts of the country and
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There was 5.7 percent job growth in San Diego County, Calif., between 1998 and 1999. San Diego County's population went up 13 percent the past decade, but once-small bedroom communities in neighboring Riverside County saw much faster growth.
Among the new perks being offered by companies in San Diego and Las Vegas, according to a recent survey by the Eastridge Group, were massages every three months, memberships to wholesale food stores and free shipping services in December.
The Census Bureau county jobgrowth data was made available in separate reports for each state and the District of Columbia.
College graduates receive fewer technology job offers
Tribune Media Services
A year ago, engineering and computer science majors at UC Berkeley couldn't avoid high tech job offers. Some companies staked out campus buildings and delivered pizza to labs.
No longer. The sagging economy has altered the landscape for new graduates, especially in the once booming world of high tech. Now graduates are seeking. Instead of looking for a start-up promising millions in months, they want a company that lasts until next year.
Analysts say jobs are still plentiful, but the competition for them has increased.
Across the nation, employers have scaled back their hiring plans. Although they aim to hire 18.8 percent more new college graduates this year than last year, that's down from their August predictions of 23.4 percent, according to the
National Association of Colleges and Employers in a survey released earlier this month.
Employers in the Midwest intend to scale back hiring plans for new graduates 42 percent.
But hard-hit companies like Cisco Systems in San Jose, which plans to layoff 8,500 employees by the month's end, have sharply curtailed their hiring of new graduates.
Salaries continue to climb for many graduates, according to another recent NACE report. Computer science graduates saw their average salary offer increase 7.8 percent to $52,259 while engineering graduates saw their's rise 11.5 percent to $53,818.
New college graduates are now competing with more experienced workers laid off by dot.com companies in Silicon Valley, said Ed Morton, of the career development center at Cal-State Hayward.
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