Employers are looking closely at this new crop of workers. A collegegrad.com survey reported on what employers want most in examining the talent pool of recent grads. It featured 500 top entry-level employers for 2008 and notes the following factors as the criteria that entry-level employers rank as most important:
1. The student’s major (44%)
2. Their interviewing skills (18%)
3. The student’s internship/experience (17%)
4. The college the student graduated from (10%)
5. Other miscellaneous qualifications (5%)
6. The student’s GPA (4%)
7. Their personal appearance (1%)
8. The student’s computer skills (1%)
Didn’t go to MIT or Harvard? Not a problem. According to the survey, factors other than the school you graduated from all count more in employers’ eyes. Regarding that number one factor on the list, your major, which ones are most in demand?
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Accounting
• Business Administration/Management
• Economics/Finance
• Computer Science
• Information Sciences and Systems
• Marketing/Marketing Management
• Computer Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
Grace and Peace,
Ed
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