Employer demands from business graduates
By Stephen McMurray, M. Dutton, Ronald W. McQuaid, A. Richard. 2016
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on research carried out with employers to determine demand for business and management skills in the Scottish workforce. Design/methodology/approach – The research used a questionnaire in which employers were interviewed (either telephone or face to face), completed themselves and returned by e-mail, or completed an online survey. In total, 71 employers took part in the study. Findings – The research found that the factors which are most important to employers when recruiting graduates were; personal attitude, employability skills, relevant work experience and degree result. The most important transferable skills to employers when recruiting graduates were; trustworthiness, reliability, motivation, communication skills and a willingness to learn. Social implications – The paper shows the importance of graduates developing excellent job searching skills, high-quality work experience and developing business courses to enhance students’ employability and bette...
Subfields: Education, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Competencies for fresh graduates’ success at work: Perspectives of employers (2018, background): “In response to a survey of employers conducted in Scotland, ‘trustworthiness’, ‘reliability’, ‘motivation’, ‘communication skills’ and ‘willingness to learn’ were considered the most important transferable skills when hiring graduates (McMurray et al., 2016).”
- Networking behaviour, graduate employability: a social capital perspective (2017, background): “Universities are thus under increasing pressure to enhance graduate employability at the same time as their resources are being squeezed (Avramenko, 2012; Finch et al., 2013; McMurray et al., 2016) and there are calls for more research into how this can be achieved (Bell, 2016; Finch et al., 2016).”