Bachelor of Commerce (Digital Marketing) - Postsecondary ...

Excel is a huge issue. It is critical for analyzing information yet there is not enough emphasis put
on it in school. Students need to spend a lot of time working with Excel in school, not just a week.
Candidates also needed more knowledge about how to enter things into HR Information Systems
software. They really need experience with payroll.
Two‐thirds of Employers who had recently hired for Business Management positions were satisfied with
the skills, training and knowledge of the candidates (Table 23). Employers often described these
candidates as internal hires, or university graduates with approximately 10 years of relevant work
experience. Among the Employers who were not satisfied with employee skills, training and knowledge,
the basic ability to manage people was often mentioned as the missing quality.
There is not enough attention paid to training managers to be effective leaders, and that can be
hard to do once they are already in the workplace. School needs an emphasis on how important
this is (motivating, empowering and leading staff). The young managers we hire want a lot of
autonomy from the beginning and don't want to be told what to do.
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