Flash Eurobarometer 304: Employers’ perception of graduate employability
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Description
A new Europe-wide survey among employers shows that, when it comes to graduate recruitment, 'soft' skills are just as valued as sector-specific and computer skills. Significant numbers of employers questioned said that the ability to work well in a team (98%), to adapt to new situations (97%), communication skills (96%), and knowledge of foreign languages (67%) were important when recruiting for their companies. Almost 50% of companies with considerable international business identified knowledge of foreign languages as the most important skill for the future.
The results by volumes are distributed as follows:
- Volume A: Countries
- Volume AA: Groups of countries
- Volume A' (AP): Trends
- Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
- Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
- Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
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Volume C: Country/socio-demographics
Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer
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Resources
Documentation
- Detailed information on public opinion website Provisional data
- Identifier
- S858_304
- Alternative Title
- Employer perceptions of the Employability of the Higher Education Graduates
- Release Date
- 2015-01-19
- Geographical Coverage
- Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Germany, Czechia, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, United Kingdom, France, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Turkey
- Language
- English
- Version
- v1.00
Contact
DG COMM
Rue de La Loi, 56, Brussels