Students protest during the University of Michigan’s Spring Commencement ceremony on May 4.
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The class of 2024 have graduated into a rocky jobs market and to make matters worse, employers are becoming increasingly wary about hiring them.
In fact, 64% of employers have said they have become concerned about hiring graduates in the past five years more broadly, according to a recently published survey of 1,268 business leaders in the U.S. by higher education publication Intelligent.com.
Almost a third of employers are particularly worried about hiring recent graduates who have attended pro-Palestinian protests in the past six months, while 22% are reluctant to hire graduates who have participated in these demonstrations.
Pro-Palestinian protests have erupted across colleges in the U.S. since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed…
