Based on a recently released survey by career site MonsterTRAK, it's all systems go for this year's crop of new graduates when it comes to job opportunities. The robust results are even slightly higher from last year's positive outlook. There are couple of items in the release that are really quite interesting, some of which parallels our own results from our fall wave. First off, we said numerous times before, this generation is brimming with confidence against a wide range of activities, be it an academic endeavor or confidence related to landing the big job after graduation, which the MonsterTRAK survey validates. According to MonsterTRAK's survey, just over half of students surveyed said they were confident about the job market after they graduate. Our report has an even more aggressive number with nearly 65% saying they will land a job before the summer ends. On the other hand, you really have to consider what employers are doing first...right? You could have all the confidence in the world, but if the market is not hiring recent grads, well then we have a problem. However, that's not the case. The MonsterTRAK survey said that 76% of employers surveyed said they will be hiring recent grads this year and 38% said they will be hiring even more than last year, perhaps an even stronger data point than the former. All of this bodes well for this year's job hunting crop of young people...now if we can just get them to show up for their job interviews without wearing flip flops and t-shirts...more to come on that tomorrow hopefully, I need to get permission from someone first before I can recap that story...
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