Jungle Campus is here to help you make the tough choices. In Use Your Noggin (page 32), writer Dave Allen explores how to make good decisions and offers a systematic approach to help you arrive at your objective. It’s an article that makes you think—pun intended.

And what could be more professionally trying than worrying that you won’t be accepted for who you really are? This is the ongoing dilemma that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals face in the workplace on a daily basis as they consider whether to be open about their sexual orientation. If your holding this magazine (or clicking on it) you know this is the focus of our cover story, Coming Out (page 24). Though we’re fully aware that only a segment of our audience will be able to practically apply the advice offered in Coming Out, we think the article holds an important lesson for all job seekers: If an employer is not welcoming to gay employees, then chances are they won’t be open to a diversity of lifestyles, ethnicities, ideas, or education. Such is the modern definition of diversity as we understand it from speaking with employees of your generation and by looking at the companies that were ranked as Top Diversity Employers for 2009. Certainly, diversity includes skin color, but it also goes far beyond what can be detected with the eye. “It’s a composition of distinguishable experiences, lifestyles, cultures and thoughts,” says Danielle Coppock from Unilever.

Also, note the color of this issue’s cover. We used yellow and green because—well, it’s spring and we’re feeling festive! New horizons! Time to spring forth into bigger and better things! Right…? Of course, we can’t deny that 2010 grads will emerge into the roughest job market since 2001. In What Doesn’t Kill You… (page 28) we examine what affect graduating into this cruddy job market will have on your career. Forget the naysayers—we think battling for a job in this economy will actually make you a stronger job hunter. ’Cause at the end of the day, the decisions you make (and how well you make them) will have the ultimate impact on your career—not the economy.

—DENIS WILSON