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Regional reports from Recruiting Trends survey

We have compiled selected regional reports from the results provided by employers to our annual college recruiting survey.  The profiles were aggregating employer responses based on the state from which the response came.  These profiles may differ from the regional section of Recruiting Trends 2009-2010 which was based on where the employer indicated that they would recruit.  Some recruiters may recruit in multiple regions.

Southern Association of Colleges and Employers

Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers

Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers

Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges and Employers

Florida Work Data

New York/New Jersey Work Data

Washington DC/Virginia/Maryland Work Data

Enhance Your Vocabulary

Before revealing our special word for the month, we need to take a moment to honor zoologists (not because they are very difficult to find employment after graduation) for the words they are introducing into your medicine cabinet:

Huachansu: Dried venom from the skin of toads that is being used to treat various forms of cancer.

Aggrastat: Bile from the African saw-scaled viper is being reversed engineered by Merck for a blood clotting agent.

Byetta: Diabetics can thank the Gila monster for the drug used to release insulin which is extracted from the Gila’s poisonous saliva.

Word of the month:

• word-of-finger – skip over word-of-mouth as marketing through Twitter and Facebook which require keystrokes is now in vogue among marketers (easier to track than word-of-mouth).

August, 2010

Lots of cool things are happening in August! Here are some events that might interest you as culled from resources that we peruse each month. Feel free to send us your own cool events too!

• August 1  50 Years of African Independence. August marks the month in 1960 that a group of African nations escaped colonialism — Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic . According to FastCompany, independence has come with a price as these countries GDPs are among the lowest in the world. On the positive side, these countries have minerals and foreign investment is coming in. Just have to handle all the corruption and warring factions.

• August 6. Best day of the year for twins, especially if they are gathered at Twinsburg, Ohio for the 34th festival honoring multiple births.  Figures provided by FC reveal that the rate of multiple births has doubled since 1970 thanks to advances in fertility treatment.  Besides the cutest twins contest, genetic scientists will be there recruiting for genetics studies.  Sending academic researchers to festivals around the country sounds like a promising way to increase research budgets.

• August 9. Mom’s best day yet (and you thought it was Mother’s Day) as we mark the 100^th anniversary of the electric powered washing machine.  Whirlpool’s retro machines almost look like the original.  Just press a button.

• August 10. Despite the fact that we have quickly forgotten the rise in energy prices and are now buying mammoth pick-up trucks at a prodigious rate (compared to 2008), the coal industry is still working on new technology.  Journey to the heart of coal country, Pittsburg, for a look at the newest technologies promising to reduce carbon footprint.  FC has coined a new phrase “diet coke”  — they have not lost their touch.

• August 14  Youth Olympics. Still visualizing the beautiful city of Vancouver during the winter games, catch the youth Olympiad for all those too young to participate in the real thing – except they do.  Singapore will be nice and cool for the athletes.

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