Finance Students Keep Their Job Hopes Alive
Despite a financial crisis that has the stock market plummeting and Wall Street recruiters calling off campus visits, business and finance students at America's universities are holding onto their hopes of finding gainful employment after graduation. While some of these students are weighing the merits of a change in their career goals -- such as pursuing law degrees -- most are simply looking for ways to make themselves more attractive to increasingly reticent employers.
See "Finance Students Keep Their Job Hopes Alive", John Leland, The New York Times, October 12, 2008