About 200 one-stop career centers will stay open to help with job searches and training.
To compete, college career centers have updated their approaches, says Sylvia Robinson, head of Georgetown's center.
Ms. Sipprelle found her subjects through career centers, advertisements, social media contacts, union halls and employment offices.
College career centers report that parents' participation in their children's job hunts is more common now than ever.
Only 22 percent of career centers are part of academic affairs and only 28 percent report having a role in academic advising".
Career centers in each major, and for the college as a whole, can offer leads, and free services like mock interviews and help with résumés.
"Despite the downturn in the economy, our Workforce1 career centers are on pace to match last year's record-setting total of more than 17,000 job placements.
State employment offices or one-stop career centers have numerous services to help job seekers redo their résumés and perform self-assessments.
Your Sept. 5 front-page article about One-Stop Career Centers illustrates that reconfigured public employment offices can successfully serve middle-class job seekers.
Aware of these realities, administrators have added an array of student services, from psychologists to career centers, to backstop or supplant faculty advisers.
If a fit can be found anywhere, it would probably be here at one of 2,942 one-stop career centers that Congress established 10 years ago.
