By Devik Jain and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) -European shares dropped sharply on Friday, after strong growth in U.S. jobs strengthened the case for the Federal Reserve to keep raising interest rates aggressively in its quest to stamp out high inflation. The continent-wide STOXX 600 index was down 1.2%, logging a third straight session of declines. The much-awaited non-farm payrolls data showed U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in September, while the unemployment rate dropped, fuelling bets of a fourth straight 75 basis point rate hike from the Fed next month. “It (the data) does…