NOVEMBER 1988
Do you hire students? This may help you understand their thinking. In ranking expectations for their first job out of college, opportunity for promotion tops the list with 73% calling it a "very important" factor to be considered. The least important factors? A corporate sense of social responsibility (35%) and company size (20%).
* * * % of students who think the following attributes of their first job are "very important":
Company size 20%
Social responsibility 35
Work hours 41
Company location 50
Starting salary 53
Opportunities for
creativity 61
Benefits package 63
Long-term income
potential 65
Job security 69
Opportunities for
promotion 73
* * *Source: Roper Campus Reports, The Roper Organization Inc., 1988