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Job Outlook 2025

Percent of Employers Screening by GPA Ticks Upward
Employer use of GPA as a screening tool was in freefall between 2019 and 2023. However, over the past two years, its use has increased more than 9%.

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Hiring Up 7.3% for the College Class of 2025

Hiring for the college Class of 2025 is expected to increase 7.3% over hiring for the Class of 2024, according to NACE’s Job Outlook 2025 survey.
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Class of 2023: Nearly 85% of Bachelor’s Grads Employed or Continuing Education Within Six Months of Graduation

NACE’s First Destinations for the College Class of 2023 report shows outcomes for bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and associate degree graduates.
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Nearly Two-Thirds of Employers Use Skills-based Hiring Practices for New Entry-level Hires

November 07, 2024

Close to two-thirds of employers responding to the Job Outlook 2025 survey reported that they use skills-based hiring practices for new entry-level hires, and more than half use these practices always or most of the time in their hiring process. Read more.

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Bridging the Skill Gap: Leveraging the NACE Competency Assessment Tool

Hear from Randy Bitting (Suitable) about his vision for the NACE Competency Assessment Tool. Matthew Brink, chief content and programs officer at NACE, will also be taking the stage with Bitting to share how this groundbreaking tool was developed. Save Your Seat.

Legal Issues

Can a Career Center Prescreen Candidates for an Employer? Can Faculty Prescreen for an Employer?

Many career services professionals are asked to prescreen candidates for employers—to identify their “best” students. So, too, are faculty members. Beyond a host of ethical issues involved in such a request, there are legal implications. Read more.

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First Destinations for the College Class of 2023

Use the interactive dashboard to filter results for bachelor's degree graduates by major and more! Try it now.

Career Readiness

Competency Implementation Helps Lehman College School of Business Develop Career-Ready Grads, Advance Toward Accreditation

November 07, 2024

By Kevin Gray

To produce career-ready graduates, the Lehman College School of Business intentionally equips its students with competencies through the promotion of applied learning in its three programs. Read more.

Best Practices

Collaboration Is the Key to Disney’s Work With College Fund to Provide Career Exposure, Professional Development for Native Students

November 07, 2024

By Kevin Gray

Disney provides resources to the College Fund to administer the latter’s scholarship program, called the Future Native Storytellers Program. Recently, a smaller group of program scholars was selected to receive additional enhancements to increase the awareness of opportunities at Disney for Native students. Read more.

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Job Outlook 2025

Percent of Employers Screening by GPA Ticks Upward

Hiring Up 7.3% for the College Class of 2025

Class of 2023: Nearly 85% of Bachelor’s Grads Employed or Continuing Education Within Six Months of Graduation

Nearly Two-Thirds of Employers Use Skills-based Hiring Practices for New Entry-level Hires

Bridging the Skill Gap: Leveraging the NACE Competency Assessment Tool

Can a Career Center Prescreen Candidates for an Employer? Can Faculty Prescreen for an Employer?

First Destinations for the College Class of 2023

Competency Implementation Helps Lehman College School of Business Develop Career-Ready Grads, Advance Toward Accreditation

Collaboration Is the Key to Disney’s Work With College Fund to Provide Career Exposure, Professional Development for Native Students

82.6%

Percent of employers planning to maintain or increase hiring for the Class of 2024

76.6%

Percent of employers rating job market for Class of 2024 graduates as "good" to "excellent"

48%

Percent of entry-level positions that are hybrid

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Job Outlook 2025

Percent of Employers Screening by GPA Ticks Upward

Hiring Up 7.3% for the College Class of 2025

Class of 2023: Nearly 85% of Bachelor’s Grads Employed or Continuing Education Within Six Months of Graduation

Nearly Two-Thirds of Employers Use Skills-based Hiring Practices for New Entry-level Hires

Bridging the Skill Gap: Leveraging the NACE Competency Assessment Tool

Can a Career Center Prescreen Candidates for an Employer? Can Faculty Prescreen for an Employer?

First Destinations for the College Class of 2023

Competency Implementation Helps Lehman College School of Business Develop Career-Ready Grads, Advance Toward Accreditation

Collaboration Is the Key to Disney’s Work With College Fund to Provide Career Exposure, Professional Development for Native Students

TRENDING DATA

82.6%

Percent of employers planning to maintain or increase hiring for the Class of 2024

76.6%

Percent of employers rating job market for Class of 2024 graduates as "good" to "excellent"

48%

Percent of entry-level positions that are hybrid