Starting a new job from home poses unique challenges — especially for college students with limited work experience.
A new survey of 2,000 undergraduates finds that students across lines of gender, major, and year worry about integrating into a new organization when it comes to starting a job from home. A strong majority (81%) of students say they would be concerned about getting adequate onboarding remotely, compared to 19% who would not be concerned.
8 in 10 Students Worry About Remote Onboarding
If you were starting a new job remotely, how concerned would you be about getting adequate onboarding?
Receiving training videos for technical tools they aren’t familiar with is students’ top priority when it comes to onboarding for a new job remotely. Six in 10 (60%) students rate training videos as one of their top priorities, followed by knowing where and when to ask questions (46%) and having a 30-day plan with goals to meet (39%).
However, students’ concerns differ slightly depending on what type of position they’ll be applying for next year. About 8 in 10 students looking for an internship in 2021 (78%) or looking for a full-time job (76%) say training videos are very important. But students looking for an internship are more likely than those looking for a full-time job to say knowing where and when to ask questions is very important (77% vs. 66%).
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Methodology: This survey was designed and conducted by College Pulse. Interviews were conducted among a sample of 2,000 full-time and part-time students attending four-year colleges or universities in the U.S. who are part of College Pulse’s American College Student Panel.
