What do employers look for when hiring new graduates? Answers from the Electus survey
This paper presents the main results obtained from Electus survey targeting 471 Lombardy companies with at least 15 employees. The project wants to acquire the knowledge about criteria for entrepreneurs in the choice for graduates demanding a job vacancy. This study, also, aims to evaluate the features of a graduate's profile employers for potential candidates in five job positions (Administration clerk; Human Resource assistant; ICT professional; Marketing assistant; CRM assistant) In order to estimate the entrepreneurs' preferences about skills and competencies for the new hirings, Conjoint Analysis is adopted. Finally, using a new definition of the relative importance of attributes, the analysis finds out the monetary value for skills owned by the candidates.