Job Search News

College seniors are anxious about the job market, and with due cause. Many are applying for scores of entry level jobs without an interview in return and have taken to looking for unpaid internships.

However, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), a source of information about the employment of college graduates, employers have revised original hiring projections and now expect their college hiring to stay even with last year’s levels.

In light of volatile financial markets, NACE recently re-polled employers that had provided hiring projections in August. The result: Compared to their earlier projections, responding employers expect to decrease their hiring levels by 1.6 percent. However, in comparison to their actual hires from the Class of 2008, respondents expect to hire about 1.3 percent more graduates from the Class of 2009.

“Overall, hiring looks flat for now and some employers are indicating some movement to cut back,” says Marilyn Mackes, NACE executive director. “In August, approximately one-third of employers said they were going to trim their college hiring; in our current poll, however, 52 percent said they were going to adjust their college hiring downward.”
The decreased expectation for college hiring that occurred between August and October was broadly felt across industries. Only government as a sector saw a significant increase in hiring expectations, while manufacturing and professional services remain essentially flat. All other industry categories decreased their hiring expectations for the Class of 2009.

“Consequently, many of this year’s graduates will find fewer openings available to them and may have to consider different types of opportunities, industries, and organizations than they planned. Most importantly, they need to use the resources available to them through their campus career center to help them identify and connect with potential employers,” says Mackes.

NACE will continue to monitor the job outlook for the Class of 2009 and will report on hiring projections as they relate to changes in the economic environment. NACE’s Salary Survey Winter report, scheduled for distribution in late January, will provide a first look at demand for new college graduates by specific discipline.

America’s automobile industry is consistently declining, and one large automaker is planning to hold off on hiring any new entry level job employees until 2009.

Ford Motor Co. recently announced it will not hire employees for entry level jobs, lower wage positions or hourly positions until next year, according to an article by Reuters. The hiring freeze will most likely affect many people looking for Michigan jobs.

The company also plans to eliminate all its hourly workers who have accepted buyout offers by the end of the year.

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While many other writers and researchers tend to offer the positive trend initially. And, later sneak in the bad news. Rather than pull any diversionary tactics, here is the news on entry level jobs in 2007. You may read them and weep, or read them and rejoice whichever the case may be as far as employment ranks on your life list.

In weatherman terms, it is a partially sunny extended forecast with entry-level jobs having a flat salary for the most part of the 2007 days. This projection is expected to last only a portion of the day and the rest of the day expected to be sunny adding to an increase in employability conditions around the globe. For this reason, you can anticipate an increase in entry-level hiring up 37 percent this year compared to 2006. Obviously, this is a continuing trend of increasing employment and Internet recruiting as seventy-two percent planned on an increase in 2006 hiring over sixty-four percent in 2005. This means of those 100% surveyed, 99% responded with plans to do more entry-level hiring than those in previous years do.

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