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A recent survey found nearly 40% of employers avoid hiring recent college graduates in favor of older employees.

WASHINGTON (TND) — A recent survey found nearly 40% of employers avoid hiring recent college graduates in favor of older employees.

Survey reveals tough job market for Gen Z grads due to employer preferences (TND)

According to Intelligent.com, Gen Z college graduates are struggling with many aspects of professional life.

Their survey of 800 U.S. managers, directors, and executives who are involved in hiring, found these key results:

38% of employers avoid hiring recent college graduates in favor of older employees

1 in 5 employers have had a recent college graduate bring a parent to a job interview

58% say recent college graduates are unprepared for the workforce

Nearly half of employers have had to fire a recent college graduate

  • M500English
    89·
    10 months ago

    There are plenty of millennials looking for work. If I could hire someone with work experience or something with no experience, the choice is obvious.

    Additionally, I have heard complaints about gen z from millennials and older. Even in my very very small business, gen z workers have been very unreliable.

    The work they do is to make things, they are paid for the things they make. They are paid well above the market rate. Like significantly higher, but they still disappear for a month or two at a time without warning and don’t respond to messages.

    There is always a final exam or family emergency. I don’t mind if they take time off, but c’mon. How many finals exams can you have per year.

    So due to their lack of communication I often need to find people to replace them. Millennial workers are hard working and produce high quality work. They often over communicate.

    So this is my perspective on the issue.

    I do have some very good gen z workers and some bad millennial workers, but that is the exception.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      So the millenial workers have had their spirits crushed, backs broken and expectations subverted to the point they’re considered “hard workers” now. I still remember when millenials were the ones considered lazy bums. Will only be another decade before gen Z become the “hard workers” and the next generation (I think it’s generation alpha) will be the “unreliable” ones. The cycle repeats infinitely under the current mode of production.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        Yes. That’s called “climbing the ladder” or “having your spirits crushed”, same thing.

        Old people don’t like when young people think they can start halfway up the ladder. It takes a few years before newbies learn that they don’t know everything and stop being insufferable pricks.

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      With 4 college semesters (two standard and two accelerated summer sessions) I’d say they could probably have a final exam at least once every 3 months.

      I think it’s best we evaluate workers as individuals and leave ALL generational labeling out of it.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      How could anyone outwork a millennial? If you shower us with praise we will literally die at our desk

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      There is always a final exam […] How many finals exams can you have per year.

      I mean not every course has the same structure but I had about 12 per year.

    • Elise@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’m a millennial and it sounds just like me and the majority of people I know. A friend of mine just gave up during this Christmas because she wasn’t feeling well and her manager kept pressuring her and making her feel guilty. I can tell you my friend is a nice and honest woman, but this just scared her and made it even harder to return. She’s completely freaking out now and started drinking and it takes me a lot of effort to support her.

      I’ve been there myself too. Loved my job. Perfect track record for a year. Then suddenly for a day I had 5 bosses, each giving me conflicting orders. I clearly communicated multiple times that it doesn’t work and that I need one boss. I’m sure that if they would’ve spoken to me as a human being that I would’ve continued. I cared and they didn’t.

      But ya then the next day I was ready to go but at my door this powerful dread came over me and I simply froze. And then you just start feeling worse due to guilt and so on and it becomes harder to overcome that barrier. After a month I managed to finally overcome my fear and return to the same job with the same people! I’m still proud of that. Unfortunately there was a lingering resentment from my manager’s side. I decided to move and do something else, eventhough I loved that job and I was good at it.

      It’s not a comment on you, because I wasn’t there. But in all the situations this happened to my friends and me it was always due to a lack of half decent communication. One could argue that a manager should be good at listening.