<p>Are you most likely to settle in the same region as your college? I feel like this would be the case because you would want to stay with your college friends.</p>
<p>I think graduates follow the jobs, and if they don’t find one in their field a lot of them return home. Anyone have any stats on this?</p>
<p>However, there does tend to be a higher density of local and regional recruiters at the college career center, compared to those from more distant employers. So a student who is looking for a post-graduation job while in college is more likely to find one at a local or regional employer than at a distant employer, assuming that there are suitable jobs in the locality or region.</p>
<p>do you think that’s still the case, @ucbalumnus, with the advent of these mega-job lists? isn’t it now possible to read of jobs all over the country without buying newspapers in every city? (Realize that I’ve been off the job market for 30 years, so I’m not personally familiar with these job lists.)</p>
<p>Not all employers post all of their jobs on the mega job lists.</p>
<p>A small employer with a few job openings may not have the resources to select and hire a few people out of tens of thousands of applicants. The cost of bringing non-local candidates in for interviews may be higher, the yield may be lower, and the cost to hire may be higher (due to relocation assistance). So if the needs can be satisfied by recruiting locally, an employer may choose not to recruit outside the local area.</p>
<p>S1 graduated from McGill University in Montreal, he then lived in New York, Paris, back to New York and now lives near us in Boston. S2 graduated from Boston University and now lives in Cincinnati. </p>
<p>You have to follow the jobs and your career, not your friends. </p>
<p>that’s good to know about the limitations of these monster lists. academia has its job lists organized by the big professional organizations. thanks, @ucbalumnus.</p>