tl20031027-000 "9 1. I. 1. g of .ts he he he ad ns he s? ey eh es th as ire nt VT1 he ve ds ft :s-n-in ar n-is St :e It iy t- 0 1 hli Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com Monday, 10/27/03 Grad's start-up on Fortune 500 5 Families visit for TU perspective 5 Haunted Mill boasts fear factor 13 Spoofs the same in 'Scary Movie 3' 24 Departments Opinion 2 News 5 Campus briefs 6 Nation 6 Arts 13 Sound Bites 15 Sports 20 In this corner 20 Athlete of the Week 17 Classifieds 16 Competition fierce for few jobs Employers hold upper hand in job market seeking experienced, informed applicants Brian Stelter The Towerlight After graduating from Towson in 2001 with a degree in sports manage-ment, Mike Greenberg worked for the New Jersey Jets and New Jersey Devils before being hired by Yahoo! HotJobs. ""The job market is tough,"" he said. ""You are not going to find your dream job now, and if you do, it will not be for the money that you are looking for."" Still, Greenberg considers himself lucky. ""When we graduated, people strug-gled to find jobs in the market ... we missed the good economy by a year,"" he said. Several years of economic hard-ships have had a dampening effect on employer hiring trends, and the changes have not been positive for college students. While the future of the job market is uncertain, it's clear-ly not what it used to be. Career Center director Carol Vellueci describes the current job market as challenging, especially for graduates who completed classes last December or May. ""We have seen an increase in the number of new graduates coming back to the Career Center to get assis-tance looking for jobs,"" she said. ""When they got out in the workplace, they found out how challenging it was."" Allison Hemming, author of ""Work It!: How to Get Ahead, Save Your Ass, and Land a Job in Any Economy,"" believes the market is improving but recommends that students be proac-tive in beginning their career. ""Students are going to have to work hard to land the entry level jobs that do become available, and you most certainly won't have the cake-walk landing positions and fat salaries that students had just a few years ago,"" she said. Lisa King, a technical talent agent for the employment agency Randstad, explains the market is cur- Costumed kids find treats at the Towers Steve Lafferty/The Towerlight Pam Pitka, a sophomore biology major, hands candy to Michael Allen, 8, and Timmy Schaefer, 4, in Tower C during Sunday's Safe Trick or Treat. ""I've never had this much candy before!"" Allen said later. rently tilted in the employers' favor. ""Right now, there are a lot more job seekers than jobs,"" she said, and as a result, fewer opportunities are available for people just entering the workforce. ""It's not impossible, though it will take a little more work,"" King said. Cary Smedley, employer relations coordinator at the Career Center, said employers now target Towson for recruitment efforts. ""[Employers] are telling me that they're taking a new approach to how they recruit students,"" she said. ""Instead of going to a lot of different schools, they try to focus on one or two special schools that they have the most interest in. We're finding that employers that come on our campus really come here because of the caliber of the students they're interviewing."" Smedley pointed out that the num-ber of employers recruiting on-cam-pus has increased since last year. In the fall 2002 semester, a total of 27 employers conducted interviews. So far this year, the number is more See MARKET, page 8 Today High 62 Low 42 Tuesday High 58 Low 45 Wednesday High 61 Low 41 Thursday High 61 Low 43 Friday High 65 Low 49 "