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“Employer Survey Suggests Strong Job Market for New Graduates”

Filed under Employment Outlook, Job Search Process, Salary and Benefits
Posted by Libraries, July 11, 2006
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Sara Lipka, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 9, 2006, Vol. 52, Issue 40, pA33.

Seventy-two percent of companies will hire new college graduates by September, up eight percent from last year, according to a survey of employers by MonsterTrak, an online job-posting service for college students and recent graduates. But don’t look for pay to increase over 2005 levels. A MonsterTrak survey of students shows that, perhaps to offset this, nearly half of the grads were planning to move back home after throwing their caps in the air.

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