“Thousands graduate from USF, hope to avoid umployment line” |
| Thousands graduate from USF, hope to avoid umployment line Posted: 11 Dec 2010 07:19 PM PST Tampa, Florida-- Right now more than one million Floridians are without a job. Starting this weekend, the competition to find one gets a lot tougher, as thousands of University of South Florida students graduate. "It's rough out there. A lot of competition, very few job opportunities," said graduate Victoria Schwartz. Schwartz tells 10 News she is already seven months into her search to become a librarian. "I have had a couple of interviews, but few and far between," she explained. In the crowd of more than 4,000 picking up degrees from USF, many have a similar story as Schwartz. "There's really not that much out there that I'm even interested in," said graduate Julie Teeling, adding she may choose to just stay in school. Saturday's ceremony comes just one day after Governor-Elect Rick Scott was on the USF campus pushing, among other things, the importance of creating new jobs. "A lot of it is changing, our attitude about business people. We want business people here. We are a high growth state. We've lost our growth. We've got to get it back," Scott said. According to Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation, that future growth is expected to come from several fields. The top ones include network systems and data analyst, employment and recruitment specialist, cost estimator, physician assistant and personal financial advisor. Scott is also still promising to create 700,000 new jobs over the next seven years. The latest employment numbers also show 35,000 new jobs have been created in Florida since this time last year. Adam Freeman, 10 News This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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