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1.8 Million 2013 Four-Year College Grads Entering Improving Job Market
March 27, 2013 by Steven Rothberg
John Challenger of Challenger, Gray & Christmas
With college seniors around the nation returning to their respective campuses following spring break recess, many will undoubtedly turn their attention to their impending graduation and the search for their first post-collegiate job. A new analysis of the entry-level job market estimates that while the job market continues to strengthen for college graduates, the environment remains highly competitive, which may force some to pursue unexpected career paths.
In its annual college graduate job-market outlook, global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. says this year’s crop of 1.8 million bachelor’s degree recipients will be able to take advantage of the 36 consecutive months of private-sector employment growth that has occurred since the jobs recovery began in earnest in March 2010.
“Job creation has been slow, but it has been steady. Over the past 14 months, private payrolls have grown by an average of 190,000 new workers per month. There are a growing number of opportunities for job seekers, but the search definitely requires an aggressive approach. This is especially true for new graduates, who are likely to have less real-world experience to point to in job interviews,” said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Continue Reading
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Video: How to Engage Students With Mobile Technology
January 17, 2013 by Steven RothbergScott Williams, executive director of the University of Georgia Career Center, discusses how college career service offices can best engage their students with mobile technology.
His team wanted students to be able access the office’s web site whenever and wherever they were. They did so by:
- Looked at their existing web sites to make sure they were mobile compatible. They weren’t so changes were implemented.
- Implemented social media into their existing web sites to improve engagement.
- Made sure that students and employers could log into their website using iPhone apps and that the apps were designed to be used at times when the students would likely to be on their mobile devices such as at career fairs. About 75 percent of students were using iPhones but most of the rest were well served with a mobile web application. Continue Reading
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Are you helping your students to plan ahead? Incoming freshmen are highly receptive to career-planning assistance
December 19, 2012 by William Frierson
College and universities should not assume that incoming freshmen don’t need help with career planning. While they may not reach out for assistance, they are open to it, according to the following post.Released this spring, the new 2012 report The Attitudes and Needs of Freshmen at Mid-Year from Noel-Levitz measures, among other things, the receptivity of incoming freshman students to various types of career-planning assistance. The report contains data from the Mid-Year Student Assessment, which assesses students halfway through the freshman year.
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How to Flunk an Interview and Drive your Career Services Advisor Crazy
December 03, 2012 by William FriersonNot showing up at a scheduled event with your school’s career service office without contacting them is a bad sign for future interview opportunities. In the following post, learn why this isn’t a good idea and what you should do about it.Want to drive a Career Services professional crazy? Just register for workshops – and then don’t show up. This is easily the most frequent complaint at any industry gathering. Many of my peers see “no-shows” as exhibiting a lack of respect or entitlement. But I see it in a different way – I see it as a sign of impending interview failure.
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How to Flunk an Interview and Drive your Career Services Advisor Crazy
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Students and Alumni, Remember to Utilize The Career Services Available to You
October 29, 2012 by William Frierson
Open door to the word Help in red letters. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.
Colleges today seem to have no shortage of amenities for their students. They have fully-equipped gyms, state of the art computer labs and top of the line food courts. And while it may seem that students are taking full advantage of these and other offerings, there is one service many are completely overlooking. I’m referring to the career services department of colleges and universities across the country. Continue Reading
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Video Interview in U.K. Immediately After Keynote About U.S. Job Market for College Grads
June 04, 2012 by Steven Rothberg
Last week I had the good fortune to fly over to Leeds, England to keynote their annual Graduate Employment Conference. CEO of Graduates Yorkshire and Gradcore Martin Edmondson asked me to deliver a presentation about the U.S. job market for college and university students and recent graduates. Many of the issues we’re facing are similar to those they’re facing. They’re experiencing some of them before we do and we’re experiencing some before they do.One issue that I knew was important but didn’t realize just how important it would be to them was the high cost of attending just about any type of post-secondary school. The cost of attending a higher education institution is far higher in the U.S. than it is in almost any other country and FAR higher than it is to attend an equivalent school in the United Kingdom. But their recent implementation of austerity measures threatens to put their schools on a similar path to that which our schools have long been on. Without exception, every attendee and organizer with whom I spoke greatly appreciated my urging that they do not follow our lead as we are making higher education impossible for many and soon, I fear, for most. As bad as that would have been decades ago, it is even worse moving forward as we cannot and should not hope to compete against other nations to see which can manufacture goods at the lowest possible cost. Unless we want our citizenry to again have third world standards of living, we need to ensure they have first world standards of work. And that means that we need a workforce which uses the muscles between their ears more than the muscles on their backs. Continue Reading
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The Hand that Feeds You: How Your Alma Mater Can Prepare You for the Job Market in More Ways than One
January 20, 2012 by William Frierson
Regardless of the state of the current job market, your alma mater can put you in a better position to land the job of your dreams shortly after you graduate. If you’re conducting a job search on your own, your school can give you the professional guidance you need. Whether you graduated last week or several years ago, you can count on your alma mater to help you make the initial transition or get back on your feet in the professional world. Continue Reading -
Top 25 Colleges to Attend If You Want a Job Upon Graduation
September 13, 2010 by Steven RothbergToday’s Wall Street Journal includes a great story written by Teri Evans about the surprising allure of state colleges and universities to recruiters at big employers. In short, writes Teri, the recruiters like the one-stop-shopping for recent grads with solid academics, job skills, and a proven track record of success.
The Wall Street Journal partnered with Payscale.com and Cambria Consulting to survey recruiters who work for some of the largest organizations in the country. These organizations recruited 43,000 grads last year, which sounds like a lot but is in fact only 0.2 percent of the 2.2 million graduates of associates programs (700,000) and bachelors programs (1.5 million). Nevertheless, it is these big employers that many and perhaps most students strive to work for so focusing on the schools which they like most is quite helpful.
It is helpful when reviewing these rankings that each and every one of these schools is a tremendous school, especially when you consider that there are over 4,000 two-year and four-year colleges in the U.S. Yet some of the top schools are clearly more attractive to recruiters than others. Ranked from the best of the best to the worst of the best are:
- Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) – State College, PA
- Texas A&M University – College Station, TX
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Urbana, IL
- Purdue University – West Lafayette, IN
- Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ
- University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
- Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA
- University of Maryland – College Park, MD
- University of Florida – Gainsville, FL
- Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA
- Brigham Young University – Provo, UT
- Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute – Blacksburg, VA
- Cornell University – Ithica, NY
- University of Califoria – Berkeley, CA
- University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI
- University of California – Los Angeles, CA
- Texas Tech University – Lubbock, TX
- North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC
- University of Virginia – Charlottesville, VA
- Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ
- University of Notre Dame – South Bend, IN
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA
- University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA
- Washington State University – Pullman, WA
- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC
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False Information Regarding .jobs Scandal
July 14, 2010 by Steven RothbergYesterday I received a letter via FedEx from Dan Jordan, chief counsel for DirectEmployers Association, a member of their board of directors, and chief counsel for the related JobCentral. Dan was upset that I wrote that Employ Media was owned by DirectEmployers Association. That’s not the case, as you can see from this scanned copy of his letter.
Dan’s letter demanded that I “effectuate a complete and comprehensive retraction of the aforementioned false information” and indicated that my “failure to do so will be considered an act of actual malice that must be defended and for which injunctive relief must be sought.” Ouch. I actually corrected the blog article a day before receiving the letter from Dan and also sent out a correction to my 150,000+ social media followers, friends, and connections. But to ensure that I left no stone unturned, I also emailed 113,000+ college career service office professionals, job seekers, and others and provided them with an explanation of the issue and copy of Dan’s letter in case I didn’t do as good of a job as Dan would have liked me to do of explaining that DEA does not own EA. Oh yeah, and I also reminded the 113,000+ recipients of the facts of the .jobs scandal and what they should do about it today or tomorrow. Here’s what I sent to them: -
College Grads Prefer to Job Search Using Niche Job Boards, Not Social Media or General Job Boards
March 03, 2010 by Steven RothbergAnyone who is involved in the world of college recruiting will find it of no surprise that a recent survey found that graduating college students who are searching for a job rely heavily on their university career centers and prefer to use niche job sites over general job boards and social networking sites.
The survey, commissioned by Beyond.com and conducted by students of the Wharton Small Business Development Center, included participants from a variety of schools across the United States and select European and Asian Pacific countries. It showed that most college students use social networking sites on a personal level, but are hesitant to leverage these sites for career-related purposes.
