ACT Survey Finds Mismatch Between Employer Needs and Student Ambitions.IOWA CITY Iowa City, city (1990 pop. 59,738), seat of Johnson co., E Iowa, on both sides of the Iowa River; founded 1839 as the capital of Iowa Territory, inc. 1853. Among its manufactures are foam rubber, animal feed, paper, and food products. The city is the seat of the Univ. , Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1998-- NOTE: This news release reports information about 1998 high school graduates who took the ACT Assessment, the nation's most widely accepted college entrance and placement exam In the U.S., incoming freshmen usually take one or more placement tests on various subjects to determine which class should be taken in the fall. Placement exams are also administered to fifth graders entering middle school. . ACT Inc. is a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. offering assessment programs and services designed to help individuals make decisions at key education and career transition points. Employers searching high and low for computer programmers and analysts, take note: new data from 60 percent of the nation's college freshmen suggest the problem may be deeper and last longer than you think. Only about 3 percent of the approximately 1 million students who took ACT's college entrance and placement exam in the past year picked computer and information sciences as their primary vocational choice, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ACT's 1998 National Data Release. The U.S. Department of Labor, meanwhile, is predicting that the number of jobs in these fields will double by 2006, compounding a shortage that is already estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands. What careers do students want? Health care, business, education and the social sciences were the top picks, even though job growth is expected to be slower in those categories -- and starting salaries lower -- than in computer fields. New computer science graduates are landing jobs that average $41,500 in annual salaries, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. . "Students' career aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl seem to be somewhat out of sync Out of Sync: A Memoir is the upcoming autobiography of American pop singer Lance Bass, set to be published on October 23, 2007. It features an introduction by Marc Eliot, a New York Times with the jobs that will be available for many of them," said ACT President Richard L. Ferguson. "Large numbers are interested in entering crowded fields, where the openings may decrease or grow slowly in the coming years, while fields that are projected to see major growth don't appear to be attracting students." The reasons for the apparent mismatch mismatch 1. in blood transfusions and transplantation immunology, an incompatibility between potential donor and recipient. 2. one or more nucleotides in one of the double strands in a nucleic acid molecule without complementary nucleotides in the same position on the other may include everything from a lack of realistic information about computer careers to unflattering images of computer professionals and their jobs. The excellent market for college graduates in many fields is likely a factor, as is an underlying concern that the intense demand for programmers may go into reverse in the long run, as programming becomes more automated. The data were obtained from a questionnaire, or Interest Inventory, that approximately 995,000 graduating high school students completed when they registered to take the ACT Assessment. About 60 percent of America's entering college freshmen take the exam. For more information see the News section of ACT's Website, at http:\\www.act.org\news, or contact Kelley Hayden at the number listed below.
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