Stalled job market for J-grads

Very disheartening study.
http://www.grady.uga.edu:16080/annualsurveys/

 

Do some thread-shopping at Romenesko?

 

On tuesdays.
On Wednesday and Fridays he cuts and pastes all the openings from journalismjobs.com

 

It's a bad market these days. LET'S BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!

 

Saturday afternoons it's the AP feature wire.

 

that's what scares me most.

 

Whats a newsy co-worker job getting these days?

 

We're not that desparate.

 

"Data from the Cox Center's Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates found that journalism and mass communication graduates in 2006 were no more likely to have a job offer when they finished their studies than graduates a year earlier and no more likely to have landed a full-time job by the end of October—approximately five months after leaving the university."

This doesn't surprise me too much. I just graduated and I remember a lot of 06 grads coming back in August / early Sept. to talk to old profs about their job searches. When my internship is up I'll probably do the same thing on the way home to move back in with Mom and Dad until I find a job.

I can't think of any cases where recent grads (05, 06 and 07) had job offers when they finished their studies. Most of the top people took internships at major dailies, hoping to get job offers after the internships.

 

It took me three years to find a permanent job after college. Now I've moved to another area and I'm on the hunt again. I'm unemployed (or freelancing, which is a sexier term, but it means the same thing imo) for about two months. I can't help but get discouraged.