Intelligent.com, a company oriented to provide solutions in Information Technology, presented the results of a survey on what business leaders think about recent college graduates.
The survey showed that employers say that recent graduates are not well prepared and ask for “unreasonable” salaries.
“GenZ is said to be a more sensitive and difficult generation to work with. While many disagree with this and praise GenZ for not wanting to tolerate toxic work cultures and standing up for social justice, others say the generation is woefully unprepared for the workforce”, the report states.
In July, Intelligent.com surveyed 1,243 business leaders to learn their experience with recent college grads (classes of 2020-2023) entering the workforce.
The survey found that:
· 40% of business leaders believe that recent college graduates They are not ready for the workforce.
· The work ethic and communication skills are the main reasons why business leaders think recent graduates are not ready.
· Of business leaders who say recent graduates are not ready, 88% say this is more true now than graduates, more than 3 years ago, and 94% admit they sometimes avoid hiring recent graduates.
· Business leaders think culture is to blame. 50% think that the lack of preparation is due to the parents46% say educators and 48% say the pandemic.
· In the last 3 years, 39% of business leaders who do not believe that recent college graduates are prepared they say they fired one. Of this group, 83% say they have fired more than one, and 5% have fired more than 10.
Most of the respondents say that a recent graduate made an unreasonable salary request. 57% of those who feel recent grads lack preparation say a recent grad asked for an unreasonably high salary.
Half had a candidate asking for $100,000. Of the candidates who asked for more than $100,000, two-thirds of the positions had salaries of $70,000 or less.
“No one is really ready for the workplace of 2023says Diane Gayeski, professor of strategic communication at Ithaca College and director of Gayeski Analytics. “It has changed dramatically because the digital transformation and hybrid workforce trends that started a decade ago accelerated during the Covid-19 lockdowns, and both methods and attitudes towards work are now very different.”
For the expert: “The trick for smart organizations will be understand the styles and values of the incoming cohort, and that leaders ask how they can create organizations that work well, for their employees and their customers. They will find a host of smart young professionals who can bring important new perspectives on how to achieve goals efficiently and create environments that are conducive to growth for both employees and the bottom line.”
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