Harvard, MIT produce most 'employable' graduates, survey found - Harvard - Your Campus. By Laura E.
Franzini, Globe Correspondent Harvard topped the chart of universities around the world that were ranked based on the "employability" of their graduates. MIT ranked seventh worldwide, while Boston University ranked 17th. The chart, entitled "What the job market wants," was published today by the New York Times, which said an online survey was compiled by Emerging, a human resources consultancy based in Paris, and Trendence, an institute that researches employer branding, personal marketing, and recruitment, according to the Times. Other U.S. schools that ranked highly were Yale (2), Standford (5), Columbia (7), and Princeton (8). China Job Needs Show Why GDP Slowdown May Be Tolerated: Economy. The slowdown in China’s economy isn’t making it any easier for Liu Fenglin to hire 10 experienced welders this year for his heating-equipment maker.
Liu has managed to find just three employees even with the economy in its deepest slowdown since the global financial crisis. “The scenario when migrant workers will throng around your desk after you hang the job poster is long gone,” said Liu, 46, whose company is in the southern city of Zhuhai. “It’s getting worse year by year.” The world’s second-biggest economy probably expanded 7.4 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 43 economists before data due in Beijing tomorrow.
S'pore employers emerge among top in adopting flexi-work arrangement. HR Jobs.