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毕业生迎来好消息, 招聘市场持续扩张 Introdution 尽管就业情况低于疫情前的水平,但就业市场正再次扩张。雇佣方5月份增加了559万个工作 岗位,是4月份的两倍,这使得大学毕业生的前景更加光明。本文节选自: Christian Science monitor (2021.06.08) Good news for grads: Help (really) wanted Enter the pandemic pummel. The recession devoured millions of jobs in a matter of weeks, a down turn that's proved particularly tough on young workers. The overall unemployment rate in April 2020 hit 14.8%while the rate for 20-to 24-year-olds ballooned to 25.6%-not even counting a large number of re cent degree-earners who dropped out of the labor market entirely for months after graduation Employment prospects for 20-to 24-year-olds have improved, along with the overall unemployment rate of 5.8% in May. While that's progress from April 2020, unemployment still hasn't fallen to pre- pandemic rates. Research by Dr. Rothstein shows that college graduates who joined the job market dur- ng the great Recession of 2007-2009 earned lower wages and experienced lower employment levels than cohorts from prior years. But comparisons to the present are limited, he says, given how the most re- cent recession has behaved For one, the current economic downtown appears to be shorter term. And while the great recession saw job losses at the highest and lowest skill levels, in this recession, there were just a lot fewer losses for college grads than you would have expected, given the severity, " says Dr. Rothstein, professor of pub- lic policy and economics at University of California, Berkeley ◆争①① Employers planned to hire 7. 2% more new college graduates from the class of 2021 than they hired from the previous class, according to a National Association of Colleges and Employers survey from Feb- ruary and March. Though it remains below a pre-pandemic hiring level, the rebound is a sharp increase from a fall 2020 forecast Job search platforms also paint a rosier outlook. Job search website Indeed reports that job postings have overtaken a pre-COVID-19 baseline. And Handshake, which caters to coll