From a recruitment and selection perspective discuss why senior management  is disappointed in the quality of the graduates available to take on more senior positions. Provide specific recruitment and selection strategies for helping management to resolve this problem.

Senior management state their disappointment in graduate quality available to take senior positions. The reason is because they feel like new graduates lack some skills that they need for such positions. They do not find core technical skills like technology and engineering lacking but soft skills for navigating through the workplace.

Step-by-step explanation

They express that these graduates lack appropriate work ethics, critical thinking as well as decision-making abilities, interpersonal and communication skills, creativity, collaboration and teamwork. Lack of such soft skills makes them not suitable for such senior positions.

The specific strategies of recruitment as well as selection that top management needs to include in recruitment and selection to solve this issue is first having a program of intern hiring. Internships help management get strong new graduate talents for such positions.

It also needs to apply multiple recruitment techniques including job fairs to recruit graduates and through social media tools like LinkedIn to get high-quality talents.

Creation of an employer brand will also be important as it will attract only high quality graduates who feel that they fit in the company.

Offering education and development opportunities will be vital to develop trainable new graduates for such positions.