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Young employees graduate prepared to jump headfirst into their career prospects, but the employers manning those jobs aren’t as prepared to catch them.
Nearly two million Americans graduated with a bachelor’s degree and entered the labor force in 2021, according to e-learning platform WhatToBecome. But only 46% of companies have specific training in place for new grads who are just entering the workforce, according to the e-learning site, Epignosis.
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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