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State of entry-level hiring: week 37, 2026

Published 2026-09-13 · Generated from FirstRung's own harvest

Every week we read the full description of every job posting we harvest and keep only the ones that ask for no prior experience. This is what that filter caught this week.

5,754
postings read
2,847
genuinely zero-experience
49.5%
pass rate
588
verified roles all-time

The gap between the label and the requirement

Of the 5,754 postings we read this week, 2,907 asked for prior experience somewhere in the description despite being filed as junior or entry-level. That is the search-result noise a graduate is expected to sort through by hand.

Companies with genuinely entry-level openings

Where the roles are

Pay transparency

12% of the verified roles in our current corpus publish a salary range in the posting itself. Where one exists we show it, because a graduate should not have to reach an interview to learn what a job pays.

The freshest verified roles right now