Meeting/Event Information

This presentation will discuss the outcomes of the 53rd annual survey to better help them understand, navigate and connect to the labor market for recent college graduates. Our group partners with 200+ college career centers and thousands of employers for all regions and sectors across the nation to provide a time-trusted outlook for college graduates and those firms hiring them.  Other items that will be addressed include:  

• Hiring outlook for recent college graduates by organizational size, industry sector, geography and academic discipline
• Salary compensation considerations during an inflationary periodInternship outlook and other forms of experiential activities
• Strategy shifts post-COVID and the emergence of generative AI on the recruiting process
• Internship outlook and other forms of experiential activities
• Strategy shifts and the emergence of virtual recruiting
• Plus other insights yet to be discovered from the updated data

About Our Speaker:

Stuart Mease has committed his career to connecting talent and companies. His service in this industry spans the private, governmental and higher education sectors providing a unique lens to the labor market.  Currently, Mease is a Director for ROCS Grad Staffing, a firm specializing in helping companies identify and hire recent college graduates with 0-5 years of experience.  Prior, Mease spent 15 years at college career centers. Most recently as the Executive Director of Employer Relations at Wake Forest University, and at his alma mater, Virginia Tech, where he oversaw admission and diversity recruiting, mentoring, career services, employer outreach and lifelong career services for the Pamplin College of Business.  He has authored “The Perfect Job Seeker” for Wiley and has developed other content for their Wiley Plus platform. Prior, he worked as a corporate recruiter for Rackspace.