Lindsay Ellis
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Jan 2025
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And the most recent survey data shows that companies are expecting to hire about 2% fewer graduating seniors this year.
That's from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
That translates to more students being on the job market at this stage of the school year as compared to last year.
The research company Veris Insights found that about a quarter of students as of February had taken jobs and stopped looking for jobs after graduation.
Last year, the class of 2023 by February, about a third of them had taken jobs and stopped looking.
So it's more important than you might expect.
Recent research from the Burning Glass Institute and the nonprofit Strata has found that if you take a job that doesn't require a college degree after graduation, you are highly likely to remain in that kind of role over the next decade.
And that might put a student back from an earnings perspective and also when they think about their career trajectory and why they chose to invest in a college degree in the first place.
Tech and consulting have seen particular contractions over the last year or so.
And many new graduates from college campuses aim to start their careers in those fields.
So when they're trying to get a job as an entry-level consultant or a
In the tech industry, they would be competing against people with a year or two of experience under their belt who might have recently been affected by layoffs or looking for a new position given that instability.
So that makes for a more competitive search.
I mean, some companies allocate jobs specifically to employees.
college seniors, but for positions that are broadly entry-level, kind of requiring maybe a year or so of experience, new graduates might see particular competition there.
Especially in tech, I've heard reports of jobs getting many thousands of applications, which is very difficult for a job seeker to navigate.
That is something that college juniors headed into this summer should definitely be thinking about who might have taken on an internship or be about to do one.
Many companies have told us that extending full-time offers to interns is a key talent pipeline still.
It's really helpful for them to see a candidate in action working with teams for years.
weeks at a time.
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