March 28, 2024
Count on an lively hiring marketplace for entry-level professionals in 2024, in line with a examine by Robert Half Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: RHI).
Its survey of hiring managers discovered 65% of organizations plan to rent entry-level professionals — usually outlined as people with lower than two years of expertise — within the first half of 2024.
By discipline, administrative and buyer had probably the most formidable plans, with 76% planning such hires, adopted carefully by authorized at 75%.
Seventy-two p.c of surveyed firms within the advertising and inventive sector anticipate to make such hires, as do 66% in finance and accounting, 57% in human sources and 56% in know-how.
“Bringing in staff who’re within the early phases of their profession is a great hiring technique,” Daybreak Fay, operational president of Robert Half, stated in a press launch. “Current grads and entry-level professionals will help drive innovation by delivering contemporary concepts and new abilities.”
Small corporations with fewer than 100 staff reported probably the most formidable plans, with 69% planning to rent entry-level staff. This compares with 67% of midsize firms (100 to 999 staff) and 61% of enormous firms (1,000-plus staff) with such plans.
Robert Half’s on-line survey included greater than 1,850 managers with accountability for hiring personnel in finance/accounting, know-how, advertising/artistic, authorized, administrative/buyer assist and human sources. Hiring managers got here from firms with 20 or extra staff within the US. The survey passed off from Nov. 1 to Nov. 20, 2023.
