In the December poll, 33.4% of employers said they plan to increase hiring recent college graduates compared to 26.7% who said they will decrease it. It marks the first time since August 2008 that the fraction of employers who plan to hire more college graduates outpaced the portion who planned to hire fewer.<\/p>\n
Similarly, companies are stepping up recruiting to engage more new graduates. The recruiting activity index increased to 95.4 from 89.8 the previous month, though that increase also included a seasonal uptick in recruiting that tends to happen in January.<\/p>\n
\u0093While this is a positive sign for colleges that have developed relationships to connect their students with employers, it\u0092s also important to recognize that we\u0092re still not where we were two years ago, in terms of recruiting activity,” Marilyn Mackes<\/strong>, the association’s executive director said in a release.<\/p>\n More employers plan to increase college graduate hiring than decrease it for the first time in more than a year. The National Association of Colleges and Employers‘ index for college hiring rose to 98.2, up from 87.2 in November. The index, based on the organization of career counselors’ survey of 122 employers and released Tuesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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