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61.9% of interns become permanent employees upon graduation
One of the benefits of being an owner of College Recruiter is that we went live way back in 1996 and so we’ve seen a lot of things come and go, including strong and weak labor markets. Today’s labor market is, in some ways, strong and, in other ways, weak.
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) recently reported in its Internship & Co-op Survey that its mostly large employer members are extending offers to a larger percentage of their interns, which is an indicator of a strong labor market, yet the acceptance rate of those offers is also high, which is an indicator of a weak labor market. In other words, employers are offering jobs to a higher percentage of candidates as they’re worried that it will be difficult for them to hire enough of the right people if they don’t extend all those offers yet, at the same time, a high percentage of candidates are accepting those offers as they’re worried that it will be difficult for them to get hired if they don’t accept those offers.
According to NACE, “this year’s intern offer rate—72.7 percent—is the highest it has been since the peak of the pre-recession market (2006), although the corresponding acceptance rate—85.2 percent—still remains well above pre-recession levels. In turn, these two figures yielded a conversion rate of 61.9 percent, a 13-year high.” So, if you’re an intern or employing an intern and wondering what percentage of interns get and accept offers to work for their employer upon graduation, a pretty good estimate will be 61.9 percent.
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