The Best Places to Launch a Career

The September 15 issue of BusinessWeek has a cover article on the best places to launch a career. I was surprised to see a Firefox security warning when I tried to view the table of top 50 companies for new college grads, but found it hard to believe businessweek.com would be hosting malware. I'm also on a Mac.

BusinessWeek is projecting the top three "What's Hot" industries as:

• Accounting
• Technology
• Government

Their top three "What's Not" industries are:

• Pharma
• Telecom
• Transportation

While Pharma is in the "What's Not" list, BusinessWeek is listing Biotech as white hot. Scandals, bureauracy, and patent expirations are the reasons they are listing as why Big Pharma outfits are not appealing right now.