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While it is not quite the days of the dot-com
boom, when companies lured graduates with promises of six-figure salaries
and ping-pong tables in the workplace, corporate recruiters are once again
combing campuses for the best of the Class of 2005.
"People ask me all the time 'So you graduated, are you looking for a
job?' And I'm like: 'I already have one,'" said Pauline Livaditis, a
22-year-old accounting graduate who was hired by Ernst & Young before
she finished school in May.
"The friends I had classes with all have jobs -- they were recruited on
campus," said Livaditis, who graduated with a combined Masters of Business
Administration and accounting degree from St. John's University in New
York.
Hot degrees in 2005 included business administration, management and
electrical or mechanical engineering, according to a survey by the
National Association of Colleges and Employers. But no degree is more in
demand than accounting, where the starting salary averages $44,564.
"The market is very, very robust, and so we need many, many
accountants," said Karen Glover, director of recruiting at Ernst &
Young. "A great person will have many offers."
Demand for accountants and auditors soared after Congress passed the
Sarbanes-Oxley reporting rules in 2002 in response to high-profile
scandals that brought companies like Enron and WorldCom to their knees.
Glover said Ernst & Young is looking to hire 4,500 accounting
graduates this year, up 30 percent from last year. To lure new hires, it
has boosted benefits -- including a concierge service for employees too
busy to run errands.
The recruitment process begins early. Livaditis
began a paid internship at Ernst & Young two years before graduation,
and she is just one of at least 15 of her classmates snapped up
by the accounting giant. She says
different companies were on campus every week trying to lure new hires.
But it's not just accounting grads who are in demand.
A recent survey by Monster, the top job-search Web site, found 80
percent of companies with 5,000 employees or more planned to hire 2005
graduates and 90 percent with 10,000 employees or more saying they would
do so.
Top entry-level jobs for America's estimated 1.2 million graduates this
year included sales, administrative and support, customer service, and
advertising and marketing, the survey showed.
"For graduates, this certainly means there are
more opportunities to gain entry-level experience than we've seen in the
past four years," said Steve Pogorzelski, Monster's North America
president.
(Agencies) |
在網絡經濟繁榮之時，很多公司曾許以畢業生六位數的薪水、辦公區域有乒乓球桌的承諾，來招聘新員工。雖然現在遠不能與那時相比，但是各個公司的招聘人員又一次蜂擁至大學校園，搜尋2005屆的優秀畢業生。
今年22歲的會計專業畢業生波琳·里維蒂特斯說：“人們總是問我：‘你已經畢業了，現在在找工作嗎？’”而我總是這樣回答他們：“我早就找到工作了?！崩锞S蒂特斯五月份剛剛畢業，安永會計師事務所就錄用了她。
“我班上的朋友現在都已經有工作了，他們沒出校門就被錄用了?！崩锞S蒂特斯說。她畢業于紐約的圣約翰大學，擁有工商管理和會計學雙碩士學位。
一份來自全美大學及雇主協會的調查報告顯示，2005年職場熱門專業包括工商管理、管理學、電子工程和機械工程專業。然而，最炙手可熱的還是會計專業，平均起薪高達44,564美元。
安永會計師事務所招聘總監卡倫·格洛夫說：“現在市場發展非常強勁，所以我們需要大量的會計專業人才。一名優秀的畢業生往往會收到多份錄用通知書?！?
隨著安然和世通等公司因財務丑聞而轟然倒下后，2002年，美國國會通過了《薩班斯·奧克斯利法案》，規范財務匯報制度。從那以后，市場對會計和審計人員的需求就大大增加。
格洛夫說，安永今年計劃招聘4,500
名會計專業的畢業生，較之去年增長了30%。為了能吸引新人加盟，安永已經提高了福利待遇，比如當員工太忙無暇外出跑腿時，公司可以提供侍從服務，專門為員工跑腿辦事。
其實招聘流程很早就開始了。里維蒂特斯早在畢業前兩年就在安永公司帶薪實習，而她的班上至少有十五名畢業生被安永這個會計業巨頭收之麾下。她說，每周都有公司來校園招聘新員工。
不過，就業前景好的不只是會計專業的畢業生。
美國最大的求職網站“巨獸”最近發表的一份調查報告說，80%員工總數在5000人以上的公司和90%員工總數在1萬人以上的公司都計劃招收2005屆的畢業生。
這份調查報告還顯示，美國今年估計有120萬大學畢業生，熱門的入門工作包括銷售、行政助理、客戶服務、廣告和市場營銷。
“對畢業生來講，這顯然意味著他們有更多的機會來獲得入門經驗，這可比過去四年要多得多，”“巨獸”北美分公司總裁史蒂夫·鮑格茲爾斯基說。
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2005-06-08 10:31