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...terms of preparing for a career in the public sector, panelists suggested gaining experience through volunteering...
Panelists also discussed the lack of emphasis during careers week on careers in the public sector...
Onie acknowledged that because of the "general push on campus for careers in the profit sector," students' concerns about their future income and the tendency of undergraduates to view "careers in the profit sector as more challenging than those in the non-profit," students are often unenthusiastic about choosing a career in the public sector...
Students looking for help paying off federal loans after graduation may want to head back to school--to teach. Under the education bill passed by Congress last week, graduates who teach five years in a poor district can have $5,000 in debt forgiven. The private sector is also encouraging community service: Andersen Consulting has a new program to hire graduates from schools like the University of Michigan, but lets them first work for two years at Teach for America...
...Winners: None. Losers: Amazon.com, which dropped more than 28 points this week as some Internet-vendor mergers promised tougher competition for the online bookseller; Microsoft, which lost 20 points on general sector pessimism before recovering some on Thursday; Lycos, off by almost half its value in the past three days; and of course tech bellwether Yahoo, down 25 points since Tuesday alone. All four were perking up Friday -- has the sector stopped bleeding? "It depends," says Schwartz. "More earnings reports are due the next few weeks, and then we'll know." Considering the still-sorry economic state of Asia, which...