Lackluster job prospects caused the consumer sentiment rating to drop in April while consumer confidence rebounded from a March downturn. The Consumer Confidence Index rose from 61.9 in March to 68.1 in April, while the Consumer Sentiment Index fell from 78.6 to 76.4 in the same period. Consumer confidence […]

  Maryland students looking for part-time work this summer should find it easier to land a job, according to labor research company Challenger, Gray & Christmas’s summer job outlook report released in April. Gains in the retail and leisure sectors are expected to fuel the part-time job market for teens […]

  Graduating seniors at Maryland are entering an improving, extremely competitive entry-level job market where experience is key, according to labor research company Challenger, Gray & Christmas’s college graduate job outlook report. The report cited 36 consecutive months of private sector employment growth as a reason for optimism, but characterized […]

  A Maryland senior is starting his own food truck business in Takoma Park and plans to sell healthy tacos at affordable prices. Aaron Simon, a 25-year-old supply chain management major, is set to open his truck in the Liberty Gas Station parking lot by the end of May. Simon […]

  The United States economy added 165,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 7.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s April employment report released May 3. Sectors that had the biggest gains included professional and business services at 73,000 jobs, food services at 38,000, […]

The University of Maryland’s annual Cupid’s Cup sponsored by Kevin Plank, the founder of Under Armour and UMD alum, began with the Business & Innovation Showcase at the Riggs Alumni Center last Friday morning. Hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs gathered to showcase their businesses and ideas, ranging from Homesnap, an app […]

  Breaking into the event planning career field is all about networking and experience, according to three event planners that spoke at the careers in event planning workshop in Van Munching Hall. Event planners Niki Charles, Kevin Cannady, and Dakia Kelly-Adams spoke at the event. Charles runs her own event […]

  Apple is about to make Pandora’s life a lot more difficult. According to The Verge, Apple is very close to reaching streaming licensing agreements with Universal Music Group and Warner Music in an effort to launch iRadio, a streaming radio service similar to Pandora. For those unfamiliar with Pandora, […]

  The US economy is improving. Unemployment is down, consumer spending is up, and undergraduates are increasingly optimistic about their job opportunities coming out of college. Senior accounting and management major Brian Molnar is not at all worried about his job search post-graduation. “I am very confident I will find […]

  For a lot of students that are in college presently, much of their life has been lived with one constant: a flourishing Apple Inc. stock.  Times are changing. Over the last six months, the paths of Apple and Google, the other market giant in public computer technology stock, have […]