Hiring New College Grads?Spring brings warm weather, flowers -- and a deluge of college kids hungry for that first real job. Recent graduates could be a boon to companies scrambling to fill vacancies in a tight employment market, but they seldom have any real work experience. So the Business Journal asks: How good is this year's crop of college grads? Brian Dunn Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. Manager Litton Aero Products No matter what program you're coming out of, there will be a significant learning curve on the job. I have done a little bit of interviewing people just out of grad school and have only one offer pending at this time. That's partly because we have only a few entry-level positions. But the person we offered the job to did have significant laboratory experience. Being able to put theory into practice is far preferable to someone who just has a good GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted . Merrilee Kaszacs Branch Manager The Culver Group We're recruiters, so we funnel a lot of new graduates to Fortune 500 companies. The people we interview are hungry, pretty aggressive, with a strong work ethic work ethic n. A set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence. work ethic Noun a belief in the moral value of work . We specialize in corporate sales, so it's not like they need a particular area of expertise. Sometimes kids just out of UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX or USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. have expectations of grandeur as far as salary and benefits go. We have to kind of bring them back to the reality that they haven't actually done anything yet in terms of real work experience. But there are others who are very realistic about what they can get. Pat Duncan Pat Duncan (b. April 8, 1960) was a Liberal politician in the Yukon, elected from 1996-2006. Duncan served as leader of the Yukon Liberal Party from 1998-2005 and served as Premier of Yukon from 2000 until 2002. General Manager Holiday Inn Select Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. We've been advertising on JobTrak (an online employment service for college students) for an executive secretary, just someone to answer the phone and type letters. The one applicant we had had no experience and none of the necessary skills. We had hoped to have more people applying. when I was coming out of school, I would have jumped at the job. I'm sure it has to do with the tight job market. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , we had to hire someone who had actually applied for another position. Rochelle Ventura Chief Field Deputy Office of Councilman Michael Feuer Michael Feuer (1958-)[1] is a Californian politician and lawyer. He now represents the 42nd Assembly District which includes Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and part of Los Angeles in the California State Assembly. He was elected in 2006 on the Democratic ticket. We want people who have not only gone to school, but people who have had jobs with public contact. Our two applicants so far were very well-prepared -- they had extensive volunteer work, experience with community organizing The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and they were political science majors. But they went off to Internet companies! Because of the tight employment market we've had less resumes than usual, but we just got more in and they look very good. One woman applicant just graduated from USC with a 3.6 GPA and she has already worked at three companies. Phil Swann Recruiter Syska & Hennessy I have had a good response from mechanical engineers and electrical engineers coming out of school. They seem smarter now; they're definitely more computer-literate. We're an engineering and construction firm, so we're looking more for the pragmatic engineers rather than the academic types. Cal Poly Pomona and San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. both have an applied engineering program and they're good
sources for us. We can't do a lot of training because of our small
size, so the Cal Poly engineers are more practical.
Lana Boisen Human Resource Manager Barkley Court Reporters & Transcription The college kids are applying to our transcription management department, which is kind of a customer service job. I just got a really good candidate from UCLA today. He's very sharp, eager to get out and learn, which is just as valuable as having concrete experience. College graduates just seem more enthusiastic and willing to learn things and try different positions. Most of the people I've seen in here who have gone to college seem like they have their act together a little bit more. |
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