From Exams To Pounding Pavement: Are Graduates Ready For The Job Market?

Graduates
College of DuPage graduates in 2015. COD Newsroom / Flickr
Graduates
College of DuPage graduates in 2015. COD Newsroom / Flickr

From Exams To Pounding Pavement: Are Graduates Ready For The Job Market?

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With exams over and diplomas in hand, newly minted college graduates are heading out into the real world. So what does that world offer in terms of employment? And are graduates’ job expectations aligned with potential employers’? 

Morning Shift talks Dr. Anthony Carnevale, research professor and director at Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce, and Susan Vitale, chief marketing officer at ICIMS, a company that helps employers recruit and hire new talent. They discuss what grads need to know to land their first job and what the employment landscape looks like in 2017.