{"id":3069,"date":"2014-09-03T21:54:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T01:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/03\/good-news-for-college-graduates\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:27:59","slug":"good-news-for-college-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/good-news-for-college-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for college graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/commencement-celebration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13900\" alt=\"commencement-celebration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/commencement-celebration.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>According to a story in <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/atwork\/2014\/09\/03\/salaries-for-2014-grads-are-greater-than-expectations\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/b>, this year\u2019s college graduates are earning more than they expected to in their first jobs out of school. That doesn\u2019t surprise John Barker, Furman\u2019s director of Career Services, who was quoted in the story. While he won\u2019t begin collecting detailed salary data from Furman\u2019s 2014 graduates for another two months, Barker said anecdotal evidence suggests pay is up by about five percent and campus visits by employers increased 20 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/atwork\/2014\/09\/03\/salaries-for-2014-grads-are-greater-than-expectations\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/b>, this year\u2019s college graduates are earning more than they expected to in their first jobs out of school. That doesn\u2019t surprise John Barker, Furman\u2019s director of Career Services, who was quoted in the story. While he won\u2019t begin collecting detailed salary data from Furman\u2019s 2014 graduates for another two months, Barker said anecdotal evidence suggests pay is up by about five percent and campus visits by employers increased 20 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}