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A first job offer? Why the salary might not be the whole story
Fresh graduates are holding out for better offers. The data suggests many may be waiting too long.
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Data suggests that the gap between what many graduates expect and what employers are actually paying is wider than most realise – and that holding out for the imagined offer sometimes comes at a real cost.
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Aslam Sardar, Kang Soon Hock and Sheryl Chua
You have recently graduated and are diligently seeking employment, but the job offers you received do not meet your expectations. The salary is lower than you expected. The role sounds less exciting than what you studied for.
Your peers from the graduating cohort seem to be getting better offers. And so you wait, or you decline the available job offers, hoping something closer to what you had in mind will come along.
