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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED340306 AUTHOR: Scheetz, L. Patrick
TITLE: Recruiting Trends 1991-92: A Study of Businesses,
Industries, and Governmental Agencies Employing New College
Graduates. 21st Anniversary Edition.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 87 p.
AVAILABILITY: Career Development and Placement Services,
Michigan State University, 113 Student Services Building,
East Lansing, MI 48824-1113 ($25.00).
ABSTRACT: The 21st annual survey of recruiting trends
analyzed responses of 464 organizations and businesses
employing new college graduates. Of those interviewed, 83.8
precent were businesses, industries, manufacturing
organizations, and service sector employers and 16 percent
were local, state, and Federal Government agencies and the
military services. Among the findings listed in this
summary of the 21st annual edition are: a decrease of
hiring quotas by 10 percent, with business decreasing the
least (1.9 percent) and the military the most (20.7
percent); the stability of the job market jeopardized by
the recession; the biggest hiring increases expected in
construction and building contractors (up 97 percent);
average annual starting salary expected for bachelor's
degree graduates in 1991-92 is $27,037; medium availability
of jobs expected for most areas of the nation with the
exception of the northeast, where a low availability is
expected; layoffs have curtailed or sharply reduced hiring
of new college graduates; and cooperative education and
internship programs are "the way of the future" and good
sources of new hires. Additional data is provided in the
following categories: campus recruiting, numbers of
graduates and employers who reneged on offers of
employment, new and emerging occupations, overseas
opportunities, affirmative action/equal opportunity
programs, cost of training graduates, shortcomings among
college graduates, and employees as reservists called up
for the Iraqi Crisis. A listing of the employers surveyed
completes the report. (JB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Demography-; Education-Work-Relationship;
Employer-Attitudes; Employment-Interviews;
Higher-Education;
Job-Placement; National-Surveys; Recruitment-; Salaries-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Graduates; *Employment
Opportunities; *Trend-Analysis
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