WWU grads face challenges, competition in tight job market

For Western Washington University students who have spent the recession in school, challenging times are ahead as they try to find their place in a job market that has been slow to recover.
Students who graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in 2008-09 had the lowest employment rate in almost 20 years, with fewer than 69 percent of students finding a job, according to a survey taken three months after graduation by WWU's Career Services Center.