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News College Hiring Flat For Class of 2009 Projected hiring for the Class the hiring levels for the Class of 2008, but no expected decline, reports the NACE Job Outlook Preview Study (www.naceweb.org). Among corporate respondents to the current poll, 52 percent of respondents project that they will be hiring fewer graduates during the 2009 recruiting season of 2009 shows very little growth over Fig. 1 CHANGE IN COLLEGE HIRING EXPECTATIONS, 2008 VS. 2009, BY REPORTING FIRMS CHANGE 08-09 Decrease No change Increase Total % OF RESPONDENTS 52.1 13.6 34.3 100.0 than they hired from the Class of 2008; 34 percent still anticipate hiring more graduates; and 14 percent expect to hire the same as they hired in 2008. (See Fig. 1.) The decreased expectaFig. 2 PERCENT CHANGE IN tion for college hiring was HIRING EXPECTATIONS broadly felt across indusBY INDUSTRY tries. Only government as a sector saw a significant % CHANGE INDUSTRY increase in hiring expecta-14.2 Agriculture tions, while manufacturing -19.6 Construction and professional services 0.3 Manufacturing remain essentially flat dur-17.6 Distribution & Utilities ing the period of economic -7.4 Trade turmoil. All other industry -6.2 Finance & Insurance categories decreased their -3.1 Business Services hiring expectations for the 1.7 Professional Services Class of 2009. (See Fig. 2.) 19.8 Government People on the Move >> >> >> PRES. BARACK OBAMA has named a new acting administrator of the General Services Administration and an acting director of the Office of Personnel Management. Thirtyeight-year GSA veteran Paul Prouty replaced Jim Williams in the interim GSA job, and Kathie Ann Whipple was promoted from deputy general counsel of the OPM to head it on an acting basis. Other Cabinet and agency appointments made by Obama since his inauguration in January: >> Director of National Intelligence - Dennis Blair, retired four-star Admiral, Commander, U.S. Forces >> Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change - Carol Browner, former EPA administrator under Clinton >> Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, physicist 14 Spring 2009 Government Elearning! Jackson, chief of staff to New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine National Security Adviser James Jones, retired fourstar general U.S.M.C. Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior, Cisco CTO U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, former mayor, Dallas Secretary of Transportation - Ray LaHood, former Illinois Congressman Secretary of Homeland Security - Janet Napolitano, Arizona governor Office of Management and Budget Director - Peter Orszag, director, Congressional Budget Office Central Intelligence Agency Director - Leon Panetta, founder, Institute of Policy and former OMB Director, Clinton Administration Ambassador to the United Nations - Susan Rice Fellow, Brookings Institute Council of Economic Advisers Chair - Christina D. Romer, economics professor, UC-Berkeley Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, U.S. Senator Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Eric Shinseki, former Army chief of staff, Bush Administration >> Acting Secretary of Labor Ed Hugler, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations, Department of Labor National Economic Council Director - Lawrence Summers, former Treasury Secretary, Clinton Administration Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, former governor of Iowa President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chair - Paul Volcker, former chairman, Federal Reserve Board Senior advisor to the President - David Axelrod Director of the Domestic Policy Council - Melody C. Barnes Press Secretary - Robert Gibbs Staff Director and Chief Economist of the President’s economic recovery advisory board and member of the council of economic advisors Austan Goolsbee Senior Advisor - Valerie Jarrett Director of Communications - Ellen Moran White House Senior Advisor - Pete Rouse >> >> >> >> Secretary of State - Hillary >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Rodham Clinton, New York Senator Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, N.Y. Housing Commissioner Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, head of Chicago Public School System Chief of Staff - Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House Representative Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, Bush Administration Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner, president, N.Y. Federal Reserve Bank Attorney General - Eric Holder, former Deputy Attorney General, Clinton Administration Environmental Protection Agency Administrator - Lisa >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.naceweb.org

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Government Elearning - Spring 2009 Contents Publisher's Note News Stimulus News DOL Expands E-learning Government Service Rating Second Life as Art Deals People on the Move Trendlines Currency and Learning Technology, Part 1 Learning Preferences at NNSA E-learning Goes Public Case Study: Arlington Case Study: BT Group Case Study: JFS College New Products Products Exit Poll Last Word

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