The value of the personal skills of new graduates in the recruitment process: a conjoint analysis case study in Lombardy

Abstract

The ELECTUS multi-centre project seeks to strengthen the relationship between universities and companies. This could be achieved by gathering information about procedures for the entrepreneurs’ choice in the recruitment process of the new graduates for different job vacancies. Using a CAWI survey, 471 Lombardy companies with at least 15 employees were asked to manifest their preferences in choosing between hypothetical profiles of new graduates with different competencies from one other. In this work, the attention focuses on the “human resource assistant”. The statistical methodology here adopted is a stratified conjoint using some layering factors extracted from socioeconomic features of the company. Results of the analysis show difference in layering factors, this means that for different subsets, some competencies are more considered.