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“People have reassessed priorities – whether it’s more flexibility with their schedules or relocating to be closer to family – and are seeking jobs better aligned with those priorities,” UVA’s Jennifer Coleman said.
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I hope you've had a chance to relax over the winter break. It's a new year with opportunities and possibilities ahead of you. Below I've curated some resources to help you launch your semester's activities, many of which were requested by our majors through our end-of-semester check-in survey. To that end, the winners of the survey drawing will be contacted this week! Thank you for sharing your experiences and ideas.
The ‘Best Job in America’ Pays up to $125,000 a Year—and Has 10,000 Job Openings
This article originally appeared on MarketWatch.
From the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), November 2021, by Kevin Gray
Employers plan to hire 26.6% more new graduates from the Class of 2022 than they did from the Class of 2021, according to NACE’s Job Outlook 2022 report.
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My name is Sarah Frame and I work at the Department of Human Resource Management with our Virginia Management Fellows program.
As a note, the deadline to apply to the VMF is 11:59pm EST on Monday, January 3, 2022 and I've included some additional information below for you:
Daniel Harper, a fifth-year graduate student, presented two of his papers at the Southern Economics Association conference. The first, “Behavioral Influences on Investment and Production in Asset Markets: An Experimental Study,” co-authored with Charles Holt, investigates individual’s future price expectations and behavioral biases towards holding cash effect investment decisions.
