Great Lakes Region Increases Hiring

Great blog post from the Wall Street Journal highlighting recent job growth in the Great Lakes region. 

Great Lakes, Good Job Market 

College hiring is rebounding in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions, but remains muted in the Northeast, Southeast and Southwest, Dow Jones’s Melissa Korn writes this week.

Companies based in the Great Lakes area expect to hire 13% more new graduates with bachelor’s degrees regionally for the 2010-2011 academic year compared with the year earlier, according to a recent survey by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. The region includes Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

The uptick stems in part from pent-up employer demand after years of hiring “sporadically, at best,” says study author Philip Gardner. He expects manufacturing, professional and science-related jobs to bounce back, especially at smaller companies.

The survey was conducted in September and October.