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8/18/03

EDUCATION REMAINS TOP JOB CHOICE FOR SLU GRADS

CANTON – For the second year in a row, education is the top career field 
choice for St. Lawrence University graduates one year after graduation, 
according to a recent survey conducted of the Class of 2002. 
      Education was also the top choice in last year's survey; it has been 
in the top five fields for the past four years. It is also the top choice 
for those in graduate school.
	The follow-up study on the Class of 2002 has been completed by the 
office of career services and leadership education, with a reporting rate 
of over 72 percent. Of those reporting, 74.3 percent are employed and 19.7 
percent are attending graduate or professional school, for a combined total 
placement rate of 94 percent.
	Of those responding, just over 25 percent reported working in education,
 making it the top choice. Other fields in the top 10 were, in descending order: 
banking/finance/investments; sales/marketing; other (fields not named here); 
legal/law-related; recreation/athletics; publishing/writing; science/technology; 
human/social services; and health/medicine.
	The survey also shows that most graduates – 43 percent – got their jobs 
through "networking," seeking a job through personal contacts, internships or 
St. Lawrence's alumni and parent network. Last year, the number-one method of 
getting a job was direct application, which fell to the number two spot this 
year, at just over 37 percent.
	Director of Career Services and Leadership Education Carol L. Garbarino 
noted that the survey shows a 4.3 increase in full-time employment one year out 
of college, "in spite of what was perhaps one of the most challenging job 
markets in a decade."

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