Posted on 05/12/2011 10:06:04 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Academics love to forecast. For the sake of college graduates, let’s hope their latest one proves to be more warranted than now seems possible.
“Students seeking full-time jobs after graduation will face a more optimistic job market this year, as the National Association of Colleges and Employers predicts a nearly 20 percent rise in hiring of graduates,” Katherine Rodriguez wrote in The GW Hatchet Online. “The association’s spring job outlook survey anticipates employers will hire 19.3 percent more graduates this year than in 2010, the first time employers have reported a double-digit increase in spring hiring projections since 2007.”
“An increase in hiring is also expected to bring an increase in starting salary offers. The average salary offer to all Class of 2011 graduates now stands at $50,462, according to results of a recent National Association of Colleges and Employers survey, 5.9 percent more than the average for 2010 graduates.”
The GW Hatchet is the daily student newspaper, with an online edition, at George Washington University. Students at GW were more pessimistic than the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
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In the end, the observations of these students may prove to be more accurate than those of the NACE, government forecasters and the press corps combined.
“Employers ramped up their hiring in April, the Labor Department said Friday, giving hope that recent signs of weakening growth have not undermined job creation,” Neal Irwin reported in The Washington Post on May 6, 2011. “But the unemployment rate also rose, showing that American workers are still having a rough time finding jobs.”
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Yep, rest assured, there is, indeed, a twenty percent rise in hiring college graduates - from slightly above zero to hovering above ten percent. On a good day.
Okay, so they’re mostly jobs at MacDonald’s, but, hey, you kids all voted for Obama. so... enjoy!
The only private sector jobs I see an increasing market for are those associated from trying to rent or protect unoccupied units at malls around the country.
ML/NJ
Mall Cop is a fast growing field.
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