Nothing, perhaps, except the actual state of the job market.

A. No matter what the state of the job market or your résumé, some truths are timeless.

The state of the job market, Government officials and private economists agree, is crucial since it accounts for the bulk of costs in the economy.

The report made several recommendations, including one that graduate programs should warn prospective students about the state of the job market for Ph.D.'s.

"Warn prospective students about the state of the job market" and reduce the number of students at schools with poor placement records.

The nature of the job affects the rules of dress, too, as does geography and the state of the job market.

American workers, of course, have been celebrating the current state of the job market at shopping malls, car dealers' lots and new housing subdivisions.

But continuing concerns about the state of the job market in the United States and relatively benign inflation data kept yields on the 10-year Treasury securities low.

IN light of the current state of the job market in publishing, a publisher who says his biggest problem is finding good editors and writers is an oddity.

The strictures of political correctness at Harvard probably prohibited Wilson from a more incisive discussion of the unfortunate state of the job market for black ghetto dwellers.

These numbers, while reflecting the state of the job market, also highlight the mixed message that many young workers send out: though leery of company loyalty, they long for a stable and comfortable work environment.

They would have helped create a more accurate picture of national unemployment, a crucial barometer we use to measure the performance of the economy, the likelihood of inflation and the state of the job market.

In background briefings for reporters, at the Davos conference this past weekend and wherever else they encounter people who might actually know something about the numbers, officials now pooh-pooh concerns about the state of the job market.

These women must be aware of the state of the job market, the legal requirements, what their living conditions will be and what they must provide in order to work legally in the country they are heading for.

I've been in the same profession since I left university 15 years ago, and - despite a mortgage, family commitments and the state of the job market - am considering jacking it all in, with the idea of trying something new.

As Berkeley's J. Bradford DeLong writes on his influential economics blog, "We have four of five indicators telling us that the state of the job market is not that good and only one - the unemployment rate - reading green."

In Clay Cross (Quarry Services) Ltd v Fletcher Lord Denning MR held that an employer could not justify paying a young man a higher wage than an older lady (who in fact trained him) on the basis that this was what the employer had to pay given the state of the job market.