JOB ACTIVITY FOR CLASS OF '11 LOOKS STRONGER

posted by Michael Chihak

The numbers on college campus job recruitment in Arizona this year are looking good so far, but the final and most significant numbers -- how many grads got job offers -- aren't in yet.

But there is higher hope this year than for any in the last thee years, UA Career Services Director Eileen McGarry told Arizona Week.

McGarry said the Eller College of Management has reported soon-to-graduate business majors getting three times the offers that came in the last couple of years.

She also said unique job listings on campus were up 12 percent from the previous year, internships rose 55 percent and campus interviewing was up 26 percent.

Businesses looking to hire are attracted to the UA because of the quality of students, McGarry said. They have well developed skills, leadership abilities and a well-rounded education, she said.

Business, engineering and the hard sciences are most attractibve, but social science majors also receive attention because of the broad nature of their education and the thinking skills it develops in them, McGarry said.

Her interview will be part of Friday's Arizona Week broadcast, at 8:30 p.m. on PBS-HD and at www.azweek.com.