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Student Attitudes

Job Stability, Healthy Workplace Culture Top New Grad Wish List

May 19, 2025
By Mimi Collins
What do Class of 2025 college graduates want most in a job? According to NACE’s annual student survey, they are looking for stability. They also would like a healthy workplace culture and friendly coworkers. Read more.
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Best Practices

Immersion Experiences Can Offer More Robust Connections Than Traditional Office Visits

May 19, 2025
By Kevin Gray
The traditional office visit has evolved into an opportunity for an organization to give job candidates a glimpse into its culture and a vision for the candidates’ career there. Read more.
Internships

Developing Skills in Interns to Prepare Them for Their Careers, Bolster Conversion

April 07, 2025
By Kevin Gray
Moving to skills-based hiring opens opportunity for a broader demographic of students to access positions where they otherwise would not meet the qualifications. Many employers include skills development in their internship programs to enhance their interns’ career readiness and bolster conversion. Read more.
Career Readiness

ULN’s Four-year Plan Guides Each Student’s Journey Inside and Outside the Classroom

May 19, 2025
By Kevin Gray
When the University of Texas University Leadership Network launched in 2013, it had two main goals that remain in place today: to help students graduate in four years and to provide students who are under-resourced with an opportunity to participate in various forms of experiential learning without having to work. Read more.

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0.6%

projected increase in hiring, Class of 2025 versus Class of 2024

60.4%

Percent of employers that rate the job market for the Class of 2025 as good to excellent

64.8%

Percent of employers that use skills-based hiring

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