Employers want talent. Travis Railsback, executive director of The University of Alabama Career Center, said employers want a talent pool they can continue to pull from to grow a successful company. The University has that talent, and it continues to draw big-name companies in the Southeast like Ernst and Young, Schlumberger and Boeing back to campus every year to hire recent UA graduates…The Career Center gathers data through a six-month survey after each graduation. They use the survey to determine where students are working, what states they are working in and what their average starting salaries are. Current data only exists for Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration and the College of Engineering, but existing statistics show high placement for UA graduates. The top employers of Culverhouse College graduates were Ernst and Young, Regions, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sellers Richardson Holman & West LLC and BBVA Compass, all which are either headquartered or have an office in Birmingham. The list also includes Hewlett-Packard, which is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.