Executives to new grads: Shape up!

cnn ^ | February 1, 2012 | Anne Fisher

[george76]

Most senior managers are unimpressed with the entry-level job applicants they're seeing, reports a new survey...

Note to recent college grads and the Class of 2012: You may not be as ready for the working world as you think you are...

a 65% majority of business leaders say young people applying for jobs at their companies right out of college are only "somewhat" prepared for success in business, with 40% of C-suite executives saying they are "not prepared at all." Not only that, but even those who get hired anyway may not rise very far. Almost half (47%) of C-suite executives believe that fewer than one-quarter (21%) of new grads have the skills they'll need to advance past entry-level jobs.

And what skills might those be? The most sought-after are problem-solving (49% ranked it No. 1), collaboration (43%), and critical thinking (36%). Also in demand is the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively in writing (31%).

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And whose fault is it if most college grads haven't got what it takes to get ahead? The executives surveyed overwhelmingly believe that academia has failed to keep up with the breakneck pace of change in the business world: More than three-quarters (77%) blame educators for new grads' lack of readiness.

[SaraJohnson]

Under Marxism, if I were to ruminate too much, I’d be in a Gulag.

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Here, in the US, if you ruminate too much and it leads to a violation of political correctness, you could be fired from your job, expelled from your school and/or targeted by Homeland inSecurity as a dangerous domestic terrorist. You can be taken and imprisoned without a trial, by the military upon the order of the dictator in the White House.

One might call these detention centers Gulags one day given Homeland inSecurity has dropped Islam as a domestic terrorist threat and instead, named gun owners who reject socialism (”hate government”) as domestic terrorists who are a threat to National security.

[Puckster]

Nicely expressed.