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USA Today’s Higher Education blog - April 10, 2010

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USA Today's Higher Education blog



Job hunting is on the minds of graduating college seniors. Temple’s Career Center is seeing an interesting employment trend: Last year, for the first time, its survey of graduating seniors found that self-employment ranked among the top five jobs. Shannon McDonald graduated last year with a journalism degree and started an online newspaper, neastphilly.com. She said there’s no secret to success. “It is just really, really, really hard work. When you’re just more than a year into a new business, success should be measured in small steps. If I was looking for huge leaps overnight, I’d have given up long ago.