Job market brighter for this year’s grads than last year

For the Class of 2009, the job hunt was positively grim. Demand for this month’s crop remains far from pre-recession levels. But students, and the career placement staff helping them, see signs of life.

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“It’s much better this year, absolutely,” said Daniel Rodriguez, who’s graduating from UConn with a degree in finance. But he added, “I don’t think it’s easy by any stretch.” Rodriguez, of Wallingford, interned at Travelers last summer, and by September, the insurer had offered him a job in Hartford, starting this June. Travelers offered jobs to most of the other interns, who came from colleges in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Minnesota, he said. He’ll get a salary of about $50,000 in line with the national average for finance majors, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Rodriguez had an internship at CIGNA the summer after his sophomore year, and he’s a big believer in using those opportunities to get on a career path. The data support that idea, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. While picking a vocational major increases an undergraduate’s chances of landing a good job business, engineering, health…

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