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Hopeful signs for job seekers, college grads

If you think the nation’s unemployment rate is high – hovering at close to 10 percent – consider this: Experts say that in some colleges, close to 50 percent of the graduates of the class of ’09 still don’t have full-time jobs they can call their own.  According to The Philadelphia Inquirer,  clearly, college grads face the toughest job market since the early 1980s. So says John Challenger, chief executive of one of the biggest personnel consulting firms in the country, Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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