The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professional This Week

For recent college graduates, landing that first job after receiving a hard-earned diploma can be a stressful and challenging experience. Negative perceptions of these young candidates aren’t helping.

According to a recent survey conducted by Intelligent.com, 4 in 10 business leaders believe recent college grads are unprepared to enter the workforce, citing work ethic, communication skills, and entitlement as factors that are holding this subset of employees back. These leaders blamed the culture at large, the graduates’ parents, the pandemic, and educators (in that order) for the lack of preparedness.

What’s more, many of the leaders in the survey expressed frustration with what they called “unreasonable salary requests.”

“Fifty-seven percent of those who feel recent grads lack preparedness say they’ve had a recent graduate ask for an unreasonably high salary request,” a summary of the survey found. “Half had a candidate ask for $100,000. Of candidates who asked for more than $100,000, two-thirds of the positions had salaries that were $70,000 or less.”

Do these findings ring true? Or are they tired generalizations and stereotypes of college grads that get rolled out with each graduating class? To learn more about the survey’s results, be sure to check out the top spot in our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals.

And further down our list, you can also learn why U.K. workers may be returning to the office for good; what LinkedIn data tells us about how to become a talent leader; and why journaling could be the key to your next successful quarter.