1. Introduction
Online career network Monster and research company Universum today launch the results of their joint Young Professional Survey:
- British young professionals look for international positions, concrete development opportunities, increasingly challenging assignments as key features in the ideal employer.
- Work-life balance is not the first priority for most as opposed to German and French workers, who value flexible working arrangements.
- Twenty-seven percent of the respondents selected BA as the #1 choice of Preferred Employer.
"The Young Professional survey shows that international opportunities are most important to achieve employee retention, however opportunities for professional training and personal development are even more important", says Johan Carlsson, Universum’s European Area Manager.
Carlsson continued, "The survey results help companies feel the pulse of the up and coming professionals and allows them important insight on how to attract, recruit and retain European young professionals."
According to Monster.co.uk Managing Director, Joe Slavin: "With over 4.5 million candidates across Europe, we’ve been able to secure a solid source of young professionals for the survey. It also provides an ideal vantage point from where to observe trends in today’s complex and dynamic job markets’.
2. Most common reasons for changing employers:
- Better pay
- Poor personal development opportunities with their present employer.
After BA, the second and third the most favored employers were Virgin and the BBC.
Female respondents showed a higher propensity tendency towards more challenging tasks -- while striving to achieve a sense of balance between both their personal life and their career. However, male respondents placed a higher priority in earning more money.
What most attracts genders to a new job/company
Reasons cited for loyalty to a company
The Universum Young Professional Survey is a survey conducted in 10 European countries by Universum Communications, together with Jobline International, now a Monster company.
3. Information
The Universum Young Professional Survey monitors work-related attitudes and opinions of more than 14,000 young professionals across Europe. Jobline International performed a selection within the Jobline career network to identify young professionals with eight years relevant work experience and university degree to conduct the survey. The survey explores issues such as salary and compensation package, career goals, recruitment, and preferred employers and industries.
For more information, please contact:
Tanya Ryan or Claire Morley
AUGUST.ONE Communications
Tel: 020 8434 5555
Tanya.ryan@augustone.com
Claire.morley@augustone.com
Maria Cansick, Universum UK
Marketing Manager
Tel: 020 7494 7030
Mobile phone: 07946 352666
Email: maria.cansick@universum.se
4. Top 100 prefered Employers
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