What Employers Look for When Hiring Recent Grads
Let’s get inside the mind of an employer.
Forbes reports.
What Employers Are Looking For When Hiring Recent College Grads
Many employers today feel that recent college graduates are falling short in their preparedness to join the workforce. The qualities that result in job success are becoming harder and harder to find in college graduates, according to many findings from education research authorities.
“Over half of recent college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed,” says Josh Jarrett, CPO and co-founder of Koru, a job placement program for students out of college looking to enter the work force. The new start-up program, which has over 25 college partners and locations in Seattle, Boston and San Francisco, focuses on immersive learning programs that allow students to translate academic skills into professional use and bridge the school to labor market gap.
Fifty-eight percent of students said college should adequately prepare them for a career, according to McGraw-Hill Education’s 2015 Student Workforce Readiness Survey. However, only 20% of students at the time of graduation felt very prepared to join the workforce. According to a recent Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) study which surveyed over 400 private and non-profit organizations, less than two in five employers rate college students as well prepared (8 or above on a scale of 10). Fewer than three in 10 think that recent college grads are proficient in applying knowledge and skills in real-world settings or areas such as critical thinking and communication.
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It is less what they know, it is what they have been taught that is not so. New graduates are not unique, special snowflakes whose mere presence is transformative. They are rookies who have to prove that they are worth the effort to deal with.
If you are a business and want to hire someone who is there to work for you and not against you, if you have half a lick of sense you avoid [as in the resume goes into the circular file] any non-STEM graduate of an Ivy League school or from any school that is gaining a reputation for “Social Justice” and violating the rule of law in order to be fashionable. No degrees in anything referring race, gender, or with the word “studies”; as they will have been taught that their proper functions is to destroy any company they encounter.
And you do a thorough social media search on anyone whose resume does not go into the round file. Fortunately, the crazies like to brag about their craziness online.