College Seniors Will Find Favorable Job Market
Posted on November 16th, 2004
Our long national nightmare seems to be over: Graduating college students will once again find jobs.
Spurred by a growing economy, recruiters are returning to campus looking for talent. Over the past few years, seniors have faced an unaccommodating market, requiring them to take lower-paying jobs or to mortgage the future with a stint in grad school. Now, finally, things are looking up.
Take, for example, this bit from a recent AP story:
College hiring is expected to increase 13 percent over last year, according to a new survey from National Association of Colleges and Employers. Seven out of 10 employers said they expected to increase salary offers to new college grads, according to the survey released late last week, with an average increase of 3.7 percent.
Four in five employers called the job market for new grads good, very good or excellent; last year fewer than two in five did.
According to the article, the hot fields are accounting, finance, nursing and computer science. But even liberal arts grads should fare better. So says Wayne Wallace, director of the career resource center at the University of Florida, in the piece. "'Any major' is the No. 1 demand," he says. "We have plenty of employers that say if you are a college grad and want to … learn our business, we will take you from that point on."
Should make for a happier spring.
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