Employers complain of poor work skills

[Source: Smallbusiness.co.uk, 16 January 2012]
In a survey by recruitment company Adecco, 36% of employers agreed that higher education is failing to equip young people with the skills that British businesses need.

Graduate skills gaps that were most commonly indicated by employers were in interpersonal skills (41%), IT skills (41%), and basic literacy and numeracy (25%), and only 4% thought that younger workers are more productive than older workers. Adecco surveyed more than 500 companies for the employer response.

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