Students are often told they are not doing enough to develop their soft skills to make them more attractive to employers. But, this week, they received a ticking off from the Royal Bank of Scotland for not adequately researching their chosen careers or the company they decide to work for. According to the RBS Career Start Report, published on Thursday, nearly a third of final-year students said they had spent less than a day researching their potential career, while just a quarter say they had spent more than five days looking into it. Nearly half of the 1,013 students polled, all of whom had applied for graduate programmes, admitted they spent less than a couple of hours researching a particular company before they applied for a job. Click here to read more.
