Transitioning From College To The Real World

Today's business world demands that employees possess highly developed business skills. It is important that during the interview process, candidates are questioned about and rated on their existing talents. New hires can bring with them a number of qualities that may be needed on the very onset of employment. Certainly today's candidates need computer expertise. They may be versed in word, excel, power point, cad, and office, If they are sales people. They need to know about sales reports and seasonality. Many sales reps need additional learning in power point and excel, and often lobby for this type of instruction to be furnished to them by the company. It makes more sense to have them schedule classes in the evening at a computer store that offers this type of education.

The typical workdays consists or meetings, writing and rewriting memos, and talking on the phone while you are stuck inside a small cubicle surrounded by people who are doing the same mu7ndane things. The job can be rewarding, but it is up to you as a new member of the business world to adapt to it. Most college students, even if they graduated from the finest colleges, are not ready for the challenges that await them in the professions world and are still stuck in the texting habits they learned as early as middle school.

Text jargon and hyphenated phrases are at this time not tolerated in the business world. It may be the case that these young adults never even had a home phone or a mother to tell them to be polite and speak clearly. You would wager that they could brush up on their politeness. If those phone habits are not taught at home, then where do they find that? Today we have four generations of workers present and all four generations think, speak and act differently. What may be acceptable now, was not acceptable with the oldest generation. Just as pensions are a thing of the past, working for one company your entire career is not expected or acceptable for those wishing to climb the corporate ladder quickly.

Today's generation has a different take on the ways to communicate and that works well in high school and college, but it is vital for anyone in the business world to remember that he or she is a grown up now and that the world is a different place. Communication skills are very important and it is vital that kids out of college understand that.

Another area of importance is the cost to bring your candidates up to a level that will satisfy the requirement of the position offered. Sometimes it may be prohibitive to take the necessary steps to educate those that are void of the skills needed. It would seem then, that hiring college grads may be risky and costly. Perhaps the selection may need to be focused on those with previous experience. Business skills are changing and you must be ready to change with them.