The Average Entry-Level Salary and Intern Compensation of 2024
Nov 13, 2024
In 2024, early-career salary expectations are influenced by the competitive landscape and Gen Z’s priorities. According to the RippleMatch 2024 Salary Benchmarking Report (available to download for free here), competitive compensation is a top priority for Gen Z talent, many of whom value financial growth potential over other job attributes. This report provides a comprehensive breakdown of salary data across fields, industries, and job functions, with particular insights into the expectations and realities of entry-level roles and internships.
How to Write a Job Description That Appeals to Gen Z Candidates
Nov 07, 2024
Generation Z is now the dominant entry-level cohort, reshaping early career recruitment with new expectations and behaviors. Unlike previous generations, Gen Z candidates often rely solely on the job description to decide whether to apply, with limited additional research into the company beforehand. Recent data collected by RippleMatch shows that 69% of Gen Z candidates read the full job description before applying, but don't seek out further details on the organization until later stages. This makes job descriptions critical real estate for communicating essential information, as they’re often the only impression a candidate will get before deciding to apply.
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The Average Entry-Level Salary and Intern Compensation of 2024
In 2024, early-career salary expectations are influenced by the competitive landscape and Gen Z’s priorities. According to the RippleMatch 2024 Salary Benchmarking Report (available to download for free here), competitive compensation is a top priority for Gen Z talent, many of whom value financial growth potential over other job attributes. This report provides a comprehensive breakdown of salary data across fields, industries, and job functions, with particular insights into the expectations and realities of entry-level roles and internships.
How to Write a Job Description That Appeals to Gen Z Candidates
Generation Z is now the dominant entry-level cohort, reshaping early career recruitment with new expectations and behaviors. Unlike previous generations, Gen Z candidates often rely solely on the job description to decide whether to apply, with limited additional research into the company beforehand. Recent data collected by RippleMatch shows that 69% of Gen Z candidates read the full job description before applying, but don't seek out further details on the organization until later stages. This makes job descriptions critical real estate for communicating essential information, as they’re often the only impression a candidate will get before deciding to apply.
5 Ways to Increase Your Job Offer Acceptance Rates Among Gen Z
In today's recruitment landscape, winning over Gen Z candidates can be time-consuming and expensive. Between visiting campus, attending conferences, hosting virtual events, and posting on online platforms, recruitment teams are turning to multifaceted methods to build out their class of entry-level hires and interns. That means when teams do narrow down their applicant pool to the ones they want to extend offers to, maximizing that offer acceptance rate is key. Let's take a closer look at how teams can increase their offer acceptance rate among Gen Z candidates, backed by RippleMatch data collected on what candidates are looking for in the hiring process and workplace. Looking for more effective ways to recruit Gen Z talent without burning through your recruitment budget? Learn more about how RippleMatch can help you recruit interns and entry-level talent here.
RippleMatch Product Pulse Newsletter: July Edition
Welcome to the RippleMatch Product Pulse, your monthly hub to learn about the products & features we’ve released to help you make the most of our platform. Highlights this month include: Interview Scheduling: Easily coordinate interviews within RippleMatch. Candidate Activity Feed: Get visibility into each candidate's journey in your hiring process. AI Chat Filter: Quickly find the best candidates for you with natural language prompts. Updates to our Communities product: New Themes and Templates that help you save time and own your brand identity. Learn more about these features and other recent releases below!
Our Latest AI Innovation: AI Chat Filtering
Filter for Candidates easily using natural language prompts Recruiting top talent is complex, but it doesn’t have to be time-consuming or cumbersome. With RippleMatch, you instantly find the best candidates in your pipeline and automatically source the talent you're missing. This means you spend 70% less time on resume reviews and manual sourcing, allowing you to focus on engaging with high-quality candidates and improving your recruitment results.
How You Can Make the Most Out of Your Pipeline in the Mass-Apply Era
Recruiting is tough, and this year will be more challenging than ever. Talent teams have big goals this year, with critical hiring and diversity targets, intense time-pressure, and serious competition for the best candidates. But those big goals aren’t coming with big budgets. In fact, teams today are growing leaner, making it essential to maximize every dollar spent and every hour of a team member’s time.
A Guide to Virtual Recruitment Events: What They Are and How to Approach Them
Looking for a strategic partner to support both your in-person and virtual recruiting events strategies? Check out our buyer's guide for a recruiting events software that will meet all your needs.
Recruiting Events Software: 2023 Buyer’s Guide
In a competitive talent landscape, recruitment events are a great way to engage with candidates, giving them an inside look at your organization, culture, employees, and opportunities to help them make informed decisions about where they might want to work. And by offering some of those events virtually, you open the door to connecting with a much more diverse slate of candidates from varying backgrounds, improving accessibility to your open roles. However, executing impactful recruitment events — both virtually and in-person — can be challenging to navigate, from inviting the right candidates to your events, quickly following up afterwards with applications to keep the momentum going, and pipelining attendees who aren’t great fits for your open roles right now.
Gen Z Recruiting Software: 2023 Buyer’s Guide
In a competitive recruitment landscape, it's essential that talent teams have the right partner by their side to help them reach their hiring goals. This is especially true as talent teams are shrinking and they are being tasked to do more with less. For Gen Z talent especially, candidates are expecting high-tech and seamless recruiting processes from their future employers. By working with recruiting software that has Gen Z in mind, you can make strides on your internship and entry-level hiring goals, and bring in the best talent out there today.
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