Survey Reveals Students Dream of Landing a Job at Google or Apple
Survey Reveals Students Dream of Landing a Job at Google or Apple
Posted 11/14/2011 at 12:17pm
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The American Student Survey aims to reveal how students preceive organizations as employers in the United States, and if the latest results are any indication, today's college students would love to work for Google. Or Apple. Or several other technology companies, and not just in the field of IT, but also business, engineering, natural sciences, and humanities/liberal arts, each of which is ranked individually.
Regardless of the field of study, students would love to land a job at Google, which ranked the No. 1 ideal destination in both business and IT, No. 2 in engineering, No. 5 in humanities/liberal arts, and No. 9 in natural sciences. Average those out and Google becomes the third or fourth most dreamed about destination among the 61,726 survey respondents.
Apple also ranked high in all five categories, including No. 2 in business, No. 3 in IT, No. 5 in engineering, No. 8 in humanities/liberal arts, and No. 11 in natural sciences. On average, respondents perceive Apple as a little better than the sixth most ideal employer.
Other relatively high ranking tech companies include Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, and IBM, depending on which field of study.
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Holly Golightly
November 14, 2011 at 9:48pm
As an International Business Major, I must say... It would definitely be a dream to work for Google or Microsoft no doubt. However, I do know that they are mostly hiring software engineers and IT specialists. Still, I would love to be than manager in their international business operations, or at least their lawyer for international related stuff. Of course, I have dreams to work in other big tech companies too.
khaz19
November 15, 2011 at 7:25am
Yeah...what's the story?
Is Batman nearby, because I see Two-Face...
Holly Golightly
November 15, 2011 at 10:09am
...And I see a pile of crap Batman needs to clean off the streets of Gotham... You.
someone87
November 15, 2011 at 6:35am
I thought you were a "big businesses are bad" and "corporations are evil" person?
Holly Golightly
November 15, 2011 at 10:08am
There you go with the assumptions about me! You think every communist wants to live in a forest? I can tell you 2 communist government that are all about technology. The only companies that are evil are the oil giants, and big banks. So stop assuming things, and for crying out loud, STOP CHANGING THE SUBJECT!
pratesh
November 14, 2011 at 8:28pm
My dream job is at Microsoft. I'd like to either be in the Accounting Department as a Risk Manager, Financial Manager, Accountant, or an Actuary
dwellman
November 14, 2011 at 6:18pm
Running a few MySQL DB clusters or some junk. I know Facebook does this (they were advertising heavily a couple years ago, but I wain't moving to the left coast noway nohow.)
In other words, it's not WHERE you work but WHAT you do. Would you rather be a low grade support peon at Google or DBA / Architect for Oakley Transport, Inc?
davidtuerk
November 14, 2011 at 3:08pm
I say, Damn good mind readers they are! Google would be nice, But I would take a job at apple, cause its my deam job.
MdX MaxX
November 14, 2011 at 1:11pm
I feel like working for Apple would be hell. Even if I liked Apple products, I wouldn't apply there.
firefox91
November 14, 2011 at 12:49pm
Not that they would consider me, I don't think I could work for Google. I saw the video of all the perks they have. I would never get any work done. I haven't seen the anything about Apple perks. Is it similar or are they all slave masters to Lord Jobs?
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