St. Jude tops Gen-Z dream employer list
Health care beat out tech companies in the 2024 Career Interest Survey from the National Society of High School Scholars. Organizations like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, tops the list of dream employers. (Courtesy St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Generation Z is gravitating toward careers in health care at organizations like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which tops their list of dream employers, beating out tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google.
That’s according to the results of the 2024 Career Interest Survey from the National Society of High School Scholars.
This year’s survey marks the 15th edition and the first update since 2022.
It reveals the preferences of high-achieving high school students, college students and recent college graduates from a broad range of geographic and ethnic backgrounds.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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