November 30, 2007

Companies Plan to Increase Hiring of College Graduates

By ERIC HOOVER

Large companies have a "voracious appetite for labor" and plan to hire more graduates in 2008 than they did last year, according to a report released this month by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University.

Companies with more than 3,900 employees expect to increase their hiring of bachelor's-degree recipients by 9 percent over 2007. Graduates with degrees in engineering, business, and the social sciences or humanities will fare well with those

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