‘Schools Need To Prepare Students In New Ways’: Hult Survey Finds Big Gap Between College & Career Readiness

‘Schools Need To Prepare Students In New Ways’: Hult Survey Finds Big Gap Between College & Career Readiness

Poll of HR leaders shows employers are increasingly avoiding recent grads — and students agree they’re underprepared.

‘Schools Need To Prepare Students In New Ways’: Survey Finds Big Gap Between College & Career Readiness

In a new survey, 89% of HR leaders say they try not to hire recent grads, and 85% of those grads say their college education failed to prepare them for the real world of work A wide majority of human resources leaders say they are actively avoiding hiring recent college graduates — and grads themselves admit they’re not ready for the workplace. That’s the headline from a new global survey by Workplace Intelligence, commissioned by Hult Internati…