This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
Some employers said they’d be willing to offer older professionals more benefits and higher salaries to avoid hiring new college graduates, a recent survey found.
Intelligent, an online magazine focused on student life, commissioned a Pollfish survey of 800 managers, directors, and executives involved in hiring in the U.S. in December.
Thirty-nine percent of the employers who responded said they prefer to hire older job seekers over recent college graduates, in part, because young professionals don’t make a good first impression in job interviews.
More than half of the employers said young recruits struggled to make eye contact during the interview, and 50% said they
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