Most students expect to find the right job quickly. They consider a secure position, a collegial working atmosphere and enough time for their family and friends of special importance. Career and money take a back seat. This matter of fact issues a challenge to many companies and requires the superiors to rethink
German companies have to come up with something to be interesting for tomorrow’s qualified specialists. In fact even for students of today the future income is not completely indifferent – the expected starting salary at an average of 37.000 Euro is a proof for that. But only high salaries itself do not attract university graduates anymore: They expect that companies offer them a secure position, a collegial working atmosphere and enough time for their family and friends. This is the result of the study “Students in Germany” from a global leader in advisory service Ernst & Young.
Employers and their new challenge
The students are looking for companies which offer them not only a good working atmosphere and flat hierarchies but also the opportunity to work independently. From their future employer they expect a style of leadership which is coined of respect and trust. Salary and Career seem to be not as important just as market success, reputation and innovation performance of their future employer.
A business culture in which individuals get the opportunity to develop their potential keeps getting more important. From a student’s present-day perspective hierarchies and rigid structures are oldfashioned. This fact puts new, party unfamiliar demands not only on employers but also on young employees. In return for more freedom employees have to have high discipline and the ability to lead themselves tightly.
Satisfaction and confidence
Six out of seven students are satisfied with their personal situation. They proceed on the assumption to find the right job quickly after finishing their studying: 86 percent of the samples expect to quickly find a position which corresponds to their expectations and qualifications.
Although their salary expectations are quite high: The students averagely expect a starting salary of almost 37.000 Euro. At this the span lies between tight 34.000 Euro at the lectureship contenders and tight 41.000 Euro at the engineers and computer scientists. But for all this money the future academics are ready to deliver great performances.
Globalization as a chance
Also the valuation of the business location Germany speaks against the move to foreign countries. Four out of five students rate Germany’s competitiveness as good or even very good. That’s why it’s not surprising that 74 percent regard globalization as a chance for their country and not as a danger just like the residual good quarter. Even more confident most of the samples estimate the influence of the globalization for their personal development: 81 percent see it as a chance for themselves. That proves a pleasant confidence, a conviction to be able to hold up personally in the world, says Wehling. You can barely say there’s talking of anxiety about the future in nowadays student’s generation.
There are only a few entrepreneurial offspings
Students expect to have a quite eventful working life. Most of them apparently are not dreaming of the job for live anymore. The interviewed students expect to work for their first employer averagely 3.4 years. Even the lectureship contenders of those you think they have a certain inclination to stay for life want to work for their fist employer no longer than 7.1 years. The cultural scientists expect the shortest first employment – they calculate on changing the employer after only 3.5 years. But this does not mean many students want to get entrepreneurial active themselves. Only 23 percent are thinking about going into business for themselves. More than two quarters prefer a working life as an employed person.
[po; Quelle: Ernst & Young; Bild: Fotolia.com]
