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Few recent graduates travel abroad to
Europe probably because of high costs,
employees of local travel agencies said.
Karen McGinn, manager and a travel
consultant at ConlactTravel, 4001S. 48th St.,
said the price of an airline ticket alone could
range from $700 to $900.
This price doesn’t include costs for stay
ing in hotels or youth hostilcs, she said.
Linda Kunz, a travel consultant forTravel
Agents International, Meridian Park Centre,
70th and O streets, said students who wanted
to travel in Europe on their own would find
that hotel rooms cost about $100 a night.
“Europe travel is very expensive," Kunz
said.
Costs vary for youth hostel or bed and
breakfast programs, Kunz said. Traveling by
program is usually cheaper than traveling
alone, she said.
Kunzsaidstudentscouia Duyariexipass,
a pass that allows students to travel by train
or water taxi as much as they want for a
certain number of days. But these passes
cost between $200 and $300.
Lori McCullough, a travel consultant for
Allied Tour & Travel, said youth hostel
programs are probably the cheapest pro
gram that students traveling to Europe can
use.
She said Allied travel had received few
calls from May graduates inquiring about
Europe travel.
These students are probably “just wor
ried about getting a job" following gradu
ation, she said.
Kunz also said few graduating seniors
had called to inquire about European travel.
“Right after you graduate, you’re proba
bly so worn out you want to stay parked for
a while," she said.
Kunz said that if students are thinking
abou t Eu rope travel, they should plan ahead
for the cheapest prices.
Get a job
May graduates face tough market
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents who graduate in May will
face an extremely competitive job
market, an official said.
“It’s ‘not unusual for graduates and
alumni to be taking many months to find
employment in the position they are
looking for," Larry Routh, director of
UNL’s Career Planning and Placement
Center, said.
“I’ve been in this profession for a long
time, and this is unusual how competi
tive it is."
Routh said several factors had led to
the competitiveness of the job market.
The recession and military cutbacks are
two main ones, he said.
Both have caused people to lose their
jobs, which places experienced workers
out in the field competing for jobs with
graduates. People in southern California
and in the northeastern United States
have been hardest hit by these factors, he
said.
Another problem for graduates, Routh
said, is that many students have entered
fields such as engineering, actuarial sci
ence and business that once were con
sidered to mean sure employment. As
greater numbers of people enter these
fields, he said, demand for graduates has
decreased.
"Today it seems like the word has
gone out on areas that have been hot on
employment, and as more and more
people go into those fields, supply starts
exceeding demand," he said. “A lot of the
big corporations have really cut back in
hiring or have had layoffs.”
Although finding a job will be difficult
for this year’s graduates, Routh said, it
will not be impossible.
“It’s a tough year to be a college
graduate, but I don’t want people to
think there is no hope, because we are
hearing from people who continue to
become employed,” he said. “Students
can get jobs, it might just take longer.”
Graduates who stay in the Midwest
when looking for work are at an advan
tage, Routh said, because the region is
not dependant on the industries that
have been hardest hit by the recession.
“We don’t have companies as severely
hit," he said. “We’re not affected as much.”
Routh said there is no “hot” field in
today’s job market. He advised graduates
to not pick their future jobs based on
fields’ perhaps temporary popularity.
“It’s kind of like the stock market, to
tell you the truth," he said. “If you pick it
on supply and demand, you’re making a
mistake.
“Pick a field where you will be very
well qualified — pick one where you can
be the best."
Routh advised students to work in
internships and gel other career experi
ence before they graduated.
He said they should also stop by the
career placement and planning office to
use its resources.
Staff in the career office will help
students develop a resume, contact
employers and arrange campus inter
views. For a $15 charge, the office will
send students’ resumes to potential
employers through a computer system.
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