After a two-year hiatus, major corporations are starting to hit college career-fair tables again, Fortune reported.

Bank of America Corp., for example, plans to offer jobs to 1,300 new graduates in 2011, and Microsoft Corp. will visit more business schools, marking the first time the company has expanded its footprint since 2009.

With the school year having wrapped up, college career centers are finding that job opportunities are again a reality.

“We ask our members kind of what they’re anticipating for the next year, and those who have an idea are basically expecting more of the same, or maybe even a little bit more in terms of hiring,” said Ed Koc, research director at the National Association of Colleges and Employers, in an interview with Fortune. “But everything is dependent on the economy in general.”

He said businesses weren’t expecting the decrease in hiring that came in 2008, and it wasn’t until 2009 that they realized they weren’t going to be hiring that year.

Planned job offers for recent graduates are up 19.3 percent from 2010, according to a report from the association. The study comes from self-reported data from hundreds of companies worldwide.

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