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Re:Being a new CS grad in this economy sucks by abyssknight on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @03:21PM (#607462)
Title is horrible, as I personally think the market is great for new grads. Heck, especially for new grads. Megacorps with good names and good positions are looking to hire low cost, high output college grads to bootstrap the next generation workforce. The article has some great advice though. I think the best thing to remember is to never underestimate the power of selling yourself. You have to know what you're good at, what you're lacking, and how you think you can improve.

When I graduated in '07 I had a job offer before I graduated. I started a month after I got out of college, and it was awesome. I've moved on since then, but that job has helped me in ways I cannot explain.

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Re:Being a new CS grad in this economy sucks by kirse on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @04:20PM (#607557)
Megacorps with good names and good positions are looking to hire low cost, high output college grads to bootstrap the next generation workforce.

I'm really not sure why you're getting downvoted, but this is absolutely correct. A few of these megacorps are facing potential retirement of 60-70% of their workforce within the next 10 years, and it's not just on the order of a few hundred retirees, it's tens of thousands.

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Re:Being a new CS grad in this economy sucks by bea_auger on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:28PM (#609317)
November 2008 onwards has been a different job market than 2007 was, so the comment here is not valid. While in Oct 08 one could find a job, many companies started hiring freezes or limited hiring last November.
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Re:Being a new CS grad in this economy sucks by abyssknight on Thursday May 14, 2009 @03:35PM (#609443)
The job I have now, which is at said megacorp, I got in May 2008. It's still valid. I will say that there were hiring freezes here, but that has come and gone in under 2 months. I think it really depends on what industry you are looking to work in and your skill set coming out of college.
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