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We asked: Has the graduate skill profile changed since 2021, and if so, how? Five years of assessment data from more than 500,000 graduates show which skills are shifting and which aren't. See what has changed and what that means for how you hire graduates. Get the full report. 🔗https://lnkd.in/d-Z5JUkY

Graduates entering the workforce in the past five years have navigated significant disruption in a short time: a pandemic that upended their education and a new, rapidly evolving technology reshaping the future of work as we know it. This report tracks each of SHL’s 11 Graduate skills separately across that period. That skill-level detail matters far beyond the hiring decision. Five years of data, skill by skill. Get the full report. 🔗https://lnkd.in/dnSd8U7b

We asked: Has the graduate skill profile changed since 2021, and if so, how does it differ across regions? The same five-year window looks different depending on where you hire. Compare skills trends across the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania to see how regional patterns support or complicate the global picture. Get the full report. 🔗https://lnkd.in/dsAMwD_Y

Five years of assessment data, 11 key skills measured, & 500,000+ graduates. This report examines the same data from our global report, but narrows the focus to five regions: the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. This gives graduate recruiters a view of the specific skills context they’re hiring from. For each region, we ask what the graduate skills profile looks like there, and how that compares with the wider global pattern. Get the full report. 🔗https://lnkd.in/dbpG_zB4

Almost half of employers (44%) say they have caught an application written by artificial intelligence, according to NACE. Writing style was never meant to be a hiring signal. It just happened to work as one, until the era of AI. A resume that reads well no longer proves anything by itself. Is your graduate assessment process AI-resilient? Get the checklist: 🔗https://lnkd.in/d5Nwi2qs

AI is making every graduate application look polished, so it's harder to tell genuine capability from a well-prompted answer. Use this checklist to sense-check whether your process is designed to find real talent at every stage. Is your graduate assessment process AI-resilient? Get the checklist: 🔗https://lnkd.in/d5Nwi2qs