For new graduates, whatever their discipline, Luckenbaugh said the sheer volume of employers recruiting on campuses this year suggests a return to the peak recruiting levels seen in 1998. Again this year, we had career centers saying they had calls from more employers than they had room for on campus. Sizeable salary increases NACE observed in the data collected through January of this year, for its winter Salary Survey, were also significant. We think it's part of the continuing shift to fall recruiting we're observing. Luckenbaugh said many companies that used to come to campuses only in the spring are now coming in the fall as well.
Students seem to have noticed the high level of employer interest.
Thirty percent of respondents, in fact, said they expect to have four or more job offers when they graduate. Another 15 percent said they expect to have at least three and an additional 19 percent thought they'd field at least two offers.