Do your graduates lack commercial awareness?
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While university life provides a higher level of education and hopefully for most a degree, it has been reported that many graduates join the ‘working world’ with little preparation for the working environment and that some lack business acumen and commercial awareness.
We surveyed a number of graduate employers and the most commonly reported skills gap in graduates were:
• They are unprepared for work – lack of business awareness and commercial understanding
• Lack of personal and interpersonal skills
• Poor English skills (making the transition from academic to business writing)
• Attitudinal issues, unrealistic expectation of role and inflated view of their capability
• Specialist job specific knowledge
• Find it difficult to engage with colleagues / working in a team
• Time management
• Presentation and project management skills
We have helped organisations overcome these issues and more by creating bespoke graduate programmes based on our Graduate Skills Academy. For more details on this, please click here or get in touch.
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