Survey Finds College Grads Are Unpopular With Hiring Managers
“24% of hiring managers believe recent college graduates are unprepared for the workforce, while 33% cite a lack of work ethic, and 29% view them as entitled”
Is this really so surprising? Would you hire a recent grad from Columbia or Harvard?
The College Fix reports:
‘Unprepared and entitled’: College grads unpopular with hiring managers, survey finds
A recent survey from Intelligent found that “1 in 4 hiring managers say recent grads are unprepared for the workforce” and “1 in 8 managers [are] planning to avoid hiring them in 2025.”
The main reasons for this are lack of preparation, a so-so work ethic, and a sense of entitlement among the grads, according to the survey.
“24% of hiring managers believe recent college graduates are unprepared for the workforce, while 33% cite a lack of work ethic, and 29% view them as entitled,” the survey found.
“Additionally, 27% feel recent graduates are easily offended, and 25% say they don’t respond well to feedback.”
The survey results appear to mirror a trend found in recent headlines. A “2025 college graduate job market” search conducted by The College Fix produced the following headlines:
“Class of 2025 College Grads Face Uncertain Job Market”
“Job Market is Getting Tougher for College Graduates”
“New Grads Struggling to Find Work in Job Market
“No Hire, No Fire: The Worst Market for Grads in Years”
Jake Gomez, head of vertical strategy for ManpowerGroup, told The College Fix that recent grads face some measure of uncertainty and struggle.
The main hurdles the 2025 graduating class face are hiring uncertainty surrounding the tariff war, artificial intelligence, automation taking over entry level positions, and “degrees [that] have not kept pace with the changing landscape,” Gomez said in an email interview.
“This creates a mismatch, compounded by the increase in former college graduates still in the job search,” he said.
Gomez also pointed out recent grads cannot expect to be immediately snatched up, that they must be prepared to search “an average of 4-6 months to find work,” and noted certain degrees should expect a longer search period.
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Certain degrees could expect a longer search period — let me guess: anyone majoring in courses with the word ‘studies” in it.
I will say the same thing I have said in other threads: companies need to launch apprenticeship programs.
Bring in young people with basic foundations in math and English (already a challenge given our public schools). Train them for the skillset needed for the jobs at hand. The sharper ones will have the initiative to learn other things and work their way up. Others will just work their expected positions and that is that.
They will not have the baggage of required nonsense courses at the colleges and universities, and will be self-sorting as those who want to work.
I remember an old comic strip.
A manager tells a job seeker, “You’re hired!” Smiles all around. The manager hands the new employee a broom. In shock, the employee exclaims, “But I’m a college graduate!” The manager responds, “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize.” The employee gets a smug smile on his face. The manager takes the broom from him and says, “Here, I’ll show you how.”
I think of that comic often when I think about this generation in general and college students in particular.
I’m too lazy to look at the survey but honestly summaries like the one above tell me nothing. They are too general,. Do they have bachelor degrees or graduate? What industry is doing the hiring? What type of position? It all matters.
It depends on which degrees from which universities
use to be you didnt have to hire the un-hirable
think again
the laws force you to hire them and/or pay up via lawsuits for people that didnt qualify other than their protected status
and as we allll know
that has crept its way into the
medical fields
airline pilots
atc
construction
education
politics
so whats the solution??
They showed us
Pay the athletes ..so now we dont have to pretend that they are getting an academic based education
so just start paying ON TOP OF ALLLL THE REPARATIONS WE HAVE PAID FOR DECADES
PAY MORE DIRECTLY to the “cant read at grade level” future doctors pilots etc
so they wont actually endanger the citizens by flying the planes ,,doing heart surgery etc etc
As a medical residency/fellowship faculty member for internal medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care who just participated in the selection of medical school grads and residents for fellowship education, I can concur on all three. Even the fellowship candidates, who normally are a very motivated bunch, seemed feckless and uninspired. The new medical school grads were abysmal: unengaged; entitled; and worst of all they were plain lazy. I’m not that much older than they are, really. I’ve been in practice 16 years post-graduation from med school, through all of my postgrad training. I have no idea what changed in those years, but the new grads have this “I’m owed it all” attitude that I can’t remember even dreaming about.
All residency/fellowship training programs start July 1. It’s a traditional date when we tell our existing patients to make sure they make appointments and ask for “faculty only” or they might get a trainee. Keep that in mind if you have a doctor’s appointment coming up, please!
Our family’s recent (the last 6 months) experiences with critical care doctors and staff have been very disappointing. It all (always) begins with attitudes
its non stop