{"id":1005716,"date":"2026-04-29T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005716"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:14:05","slug":"salary-expectations-outpace-reality-for-freshers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/salary-expectations-outpace-reality-for-freshers\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary expectations outpace reality for freshers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unstop\u2019s Talent Report 2026 finds a widening gap between salary expectations and outcomes among fresh graduates, with 73% of undergraduate students expecting annual salaries above Rs 5 lakh, but only 40% securing such offers, even as nearly 88% of companies report active hiring. <\/p>\n<p>The report, based on insights from over 37,000 students and 500 HR leaders. While companies continue to hire, a large proportion of students remain without jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unstop\u2019s Talent Report 2026 finds a widening gap between salary expectations and outcomes among fresh graduates, with 73% of undergraduate students expecting annual salaries above Rs 5 lakh, but only 40% securing such offers, even as nearly 88% of companies report active hiring. The report, based on insights from over 37,000 students and 500 HR leaders. While companies continue to hire, a large proportion of students remain without jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}