According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the number of graduates hired from the class of 2002 dropped 36 percent from the previous year.

Still, hiring of this year's crop of graduates is up 5 percent over the previous year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

In yet another poll, the National Association of Colleges and Employers asked 1,218 college seniors entering the work force to rank the importance of 20 benefits.

In particular, jobs at consulting firms are scarcer, according to a survey of more than 90 schools by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Employers intend to hire 19.2 percent more new college graduates than they did last year, according to a recent poll by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, beginning salary offers in July 2009 for graduates with a bachelor's degree in chemistry averaged $39,897 a year.

Companies expect to hire 13 percent more graduates than last year, according to a poll by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

A recent report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that companies expect to hire 36 percent fewer new college graduates than they did last year.

But after a fallow couple of years, hiring picked up last spring for new graduates with bachelor's degrees, the National Association of Colleges and Employers reported.

He served as the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the National Association of Contractors and Employers.