Job Market

For the Class of 2011, the job market is off to a positive start. Employers responding to the NACE Job Outlook 2011 Fall Preview survey reported plans to hire 13.5 percent more new bachelor’s graduates from the Class of 2011 than they did from the Class of 2010. (See Figure 1.)

The early projection seems to fall right in line with the positive trend that began in spring 2010. The news for Class of 2010 graduates didn’t start on a positive note, but by spring of 2010, employers reported that they would end the recruiting year hiring 5.3 percent more new graduates in 2009-10 than they did in 2008-09.

Providing more confidence in the encouraging news for the Class of 2011 is the fact that the number of employers with plans to increase their actual number of hires has greatly improved. (See Figure 2.)

At the start of the 2009-10 recruiting cycle, just 16.9 percent of respondents had plans to increase their number of hires. For the 2010-11 recruiting year, the percentage of similar respondents has nearly tripled, with 47.7 percent having plans to up their hiring numbers.  Click here to read more... 

Addtional articles:

USA Today Article on Job Growth

WSU Office of Career Services

 

The Career Services staff is available to assist you with your career development needs. Many of the services that were available to you as a student are still available to you as an alumni including:

• career counseling and
  career assessment inventories
• professional and graduate school guidance
• resume/cover letter/and job search guidance
• mock interview prep
• on-line job database

The Career Services staff are ready to assist you with your career and educational needs. Individual career counseling appointments are also available.  Please call 508-929-8072 or visit our website at www.worcester.edu/careerservices.

We look forward to working with you.