While 401(K) contributions have traditionally been a benefit companies used to lure talented employees, innovative companies are beginning to offer a new benefit that their millennial employees need even more: help paying their student loans. A recent article in The Hechinger Report discussed the rise of employee benefit programs aimed at helping employees pay student debt. […]
What’s more important to employers — that a job candidate has a college degree or possesses specific job skills? The majority of working adults believe it’s the latter, according to a new survey by job listing site Glassdoor. College degrees vs. job skills: what’s more important? The site surveyed 2,000 working adults and found that 72% said getting trained in […]
Good news (finally!) for young college graduates.
According to a survey released on April 16, employers said they plan to increase the number of college graduates they hire this year by nearly 9 percent.