{"id":34315,"date":"2014-06-26T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:31:39","slug":"recession-shaken-undergraduates-trust-in-employers-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/recession-shaken-undergraduates-trust-in-employers-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Recession shaken undergraduates\u2019 trust in employers, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBuilding up trust is key to cementing the relationship between an employer and their employees. However, it seems that the volatile nature of the jobs market during the UK\u2019s double-dip recession may have shaken undergraduates\u2019 faith in employers.
\nThis is according to the findings of Trendence UK Graduate Barometer 2014. Asked whether they agree or disagree with the statement \u201cthe economic crisis has caused me to have less trust in employers,\u201d 40% of the 27,000 students questioned said they agreed, while just 19% actively disagreed with the statement.<\/p>\n

Further figures from the survey showed that this loss of trust was more prominent among state sector students (44%), compared to private sector students (37%).<\/p>\n

The survey findings reveal that even though the UK economy has climbed out of a recession, employers are still going to have to take measures to help regain the trust of their graduate employees. Outlining this in more detail the survey says:<\/p>\n

\u2018Trust plays an important role in students\u2019 decisions about which organizations to apply to and influences their choice of first employer after graduation, so there is a need for the graduate recruitment industry to restore their faith, and a need for individual recruiters to address the issue directly in their recruitment marketing and campus engagement.\u2019<\/p>\n

The qualities of trustworthy leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n

A study carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in conjunction with the University of Bath earlier this year offered up some insight into what constitutes a trustworthy leader.<\/p>\n

The study identified four key qualities demonstrated by trustworthy leaders – ability, benevolence, integrity and predictability. Employers may want to emulate these qualities in an effort to establish trust with their graduate workforce.<\/p>\n

The report also highlighted the importance of understanding trust within the context of workplace practices and relationships.
\n\u2018What seems to be crucial in order to create an environment of trust and trustworthiness is that the practices and policies evolve alongside the relationships…trust is primarily relational and we believe that this needs to be recognized by organizations in order to cultivate trustworthy leaders,\u2019 the report outlined.
\nIf you are planning to recruit graduates to fill your range of vacancies in 2014, Discovery Graduates can help with all stages of the graduate recruitment process including attraction, recruitment and retention.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Building up trust is key to cementing the relationship between an employer and their employees. However, it seems that the volatile nature of the jobs market during the UK\u2019s double-dip recession may have shaken undergraduates\u2019 faith in employers. This is according to the findings of Trendence UK Graduate Barometer 2014. Asked whether they agree or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}