They are often offended and come to the recruitment interview with their parents. Employers call them “demanding”

Generation Z doesn’t have the best reputation on the labor market? The online magazine “Intelligent” commissioned a study by the Pollfish agency to show the attitude of potential employers towards Generation Z employees.

It turned out that they prefer to entrust vacant positions to older and more experienced people, giving them better conditions and more favorable remuneration in return. The survey was conducted among 800 people in managerial positions and among recruiters in the USA.

As we read, a total of 39 percent of respondents admitted that they would prefer to employ an older specialist than a fresh university graduate. They justified it, among others: because “Zets” don’t do well during recruitment interviews. What particularly bothered them?

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More than 50 percent of respondents admitted that the candidate was unable to make eye contact with them. Half of the respondents stated that they demanded too high rates, exceeding their competences. Nearly half of the survey participants said that the candidate’s outfit was inappropriate.

One more detail may be shocking: almost 20 percent of respondents admitted that they had experienced a situation in which a young candidate came to a job interview with one of his parents.

The majority of respondents described employees in their twenties as “demanding”. “Nearly two-thirds of employers said this was ‘very true’ or ‘somewhat true’,” we read in Business Insider. More than 58 percent believed that Gen Z employees were “too easily offended.”

Nearly 60 percent of people also said that young people are often not prepared to take up work. The problem allegedly also lies in “poor communication skills” and inappropriate reactions to the so-called feedback, i.e. feedback from the superior about the work performed.