By KEVIN GRAHAM

Despite job anxiety, Cameron Schea, a junior majoring in finance at Oakland University has his own moving company that is rapidly expanding.

His business, Silverback Moving, has been around a year, but already has three locations in Southeastern Michigan.

Schea has his eyes set on expanding his business’ services to the western side of Michigan and Illinois within the next year.

Crediting his success to a combination of hard work and favorable consumer policies, Schea says he is living his dream.

“I’ve always been passionate about business,” he said. “As soon as I could actually read a good book, I would just read about entrepreneurs and guys who really changed the face of the world we know it now through business.”

The economy will be the primary subject of discussion at Wednesday’s Republican Presidential Debate that is being hosted at Oakland.  However, Schea is not necessarily an atypical case.

According to the most recent Gallup poll, 50 percent of Americans believe they are thriving despite the country’s current economic troubles.

The primary concern for most college students is finding a job once they leave school.

Wayne Thibodeau, director of career services, said although Michigan usually takes longer to come back, there is reason for optimism.

“The segments of the market we have witnessed a rebound include engineering, information technology, computer science, accounting and health care including nursing and health sciences,” Thibodeau said.

Thibodeau referenced a September event held in conjunction with Lawrence Tech to show that employers are hiring.

“We reached capacity with 90 top engineering and IT employers,” he said. “This was an increase of 74 percent from last year’s expo.  We had a total of 294 students in attendance from OU and LTU which was an increase of 15 percent from a year ago.  We also offered on-site interviews in the afternoon after the expo and 17 employers took advantage of interviewing 86 students on-site.”

Part of the growth in engineering jobs may be due to the fact that the auto industry is pushing for higher quality and needs skilled talent, Thibodeau said.

Although engineering and technology are growing industries, he laid out some keys to success for students to get a job in any profession.

Thibodeau said businesses are looking for students that can come up with creative solutions to problems and adapt quickly to an ever-changing market.

Employers are looking for people that can work in a variety of environments and have high levels of entrepreneurship.

Schea said that the key to success is meeting one’s own expectations.

“I don’t consider the time or the climate,” he said. “It’s all about how you execute your goals and how organized you are and how efficient you are.”