September 24, 2003

Blow-up job offers
Posted by jbutler@bostonworks.com">Jason Butler at 9:09 AM -

This morning's Globe reports on the plight of recent college graduates whose firm job offers have "blown up" due to the economy.

Employers whose financial fortunes sour suddenly have in recent years yanked supposedly firm job offers from new graduates, leaving even those from top-drawer schools such as MIT, Harvard University and Stanford University in the lurch and forced to find other employment. These "blow-up offers," as college administrators call them, are continuing fallout from a US job market that shrinks, month after month, and they disrupt the well-laid plans of aspiring lawyers, consultants, or executives.

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