These job titles include database administrators, computer support specialists, computer scientists, computer engineers and systems analysts. Our computer science graduates are finding great jobs with minimal effort. Companies wooing talented graduates are trying approaches that are sure to dazzle. How graduates find jobs is also changing, noted Royappa. Now, employers often find students by referral and contact them directly.
Students expect to choose from multiple offers when they graduate.
Most colleges and universities host career days and other events that give companies a chance to interact with graduates and conduct interviews. But many students are turning to the Internet to find jobs. Occupations that require college degrees are growing twice as fast as others, says Futurework. Twenty years ago the average college graduate earned 38 percent more than the average high-school graduate. Today it is 71 percent.