Reviewing Offers
Percentage of college students reporting with whom they review their jobs offers, by gender, 2008
| Source | Female | Male |
| Parents | 72.3% | 66.0% |
| Relative other than parent | 29.8 | 28.6 |
| Friend | 61.2 | 58.9 |
| Faculty | 27.7 | 27.9 |
| Career center | 15.7 | 17.7 |
| No one; decided on my own | 16.9 | 21.0 |
| Note: Survey of 19,000 college students | ||
| Source: National Association of Colleges and Employers | ||
Online Help Wanted Ads
National and regional total-ads rate and new-ads rate, June 2007 and 2008
| Total-ads rate | New-ads rate | |||
| June ’07 | June ’08 | June ’07 | June ’08 | |
| U.S. | 2.8 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| New England | 3.7 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| Mid-Atlantic | 3.1 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 2.0 |
| South Atlantic | 2.9 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| East North Central | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| East South Central | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
| West North Central | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| West South Central | 2.8 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Mountain | 3.8 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.5 |
| Pacific | 3.8 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| Note: Ads rates are calculated as a percentage of the most currently available | ||||
| Source: The Conference Board | ||||
