Slowing Demand

By LISA GIRION

Nov. 12, 2000 12 AM PT

The growth in job postings for graduates at colleges slowed to 3.1% in September, down from a year-over-year record in March of 50%, according to the latest sampling from Jobtrak.com, an online employment marketplace.

The number of job postings in sales, marketing, advertising and public relations declined the most, down 16.6% over September 1999, while demand for grads in education showed the greatest increase, 36.7%.

Jobs in the computer and information science field carried the biggest average starting salary, $49,245. Bringing up the rear were postings for secretaries and clerks at $27,840.

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Lisa Girion

As an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Girion produced many high-impact stories, including an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Myanmar, which was anthologized in “Global Muckraking” (The New Press, 2014). Her investigation into the health insurance practice of dropping sick patients, known as rescission, was cited in the Affordable Care Act. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She left The Times in 2015.

Slowing Demand

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