L’Oreal, Nokia and Coca-Cola were the top three most coveted employers by Hungarian economics graduates last year, according to the latest survey of student organization AIESEC, published earlier this month. Compiled jointly with BellResearch and Hewitt Humán Tanácsadó, the AIESEC polled nearly 2,000 students in its annual ‘Most Desired Company’ survey, asking them to name the most attractive firm they would want to work for, based on factors such as working environment, career and training opportunities, brand and pay package.
Among the five companies ranked highest by students were French cosmetics giant L’Oreal, Finnish cellphone maker Nokia and U.S. soft drink company Coca-Cola, followed by Audi Hungaria and OTP Bank.
L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and OTP were picked mainly for brand and reputation, Nokia for the quality of its products, Malév was favored for its traveling opportunities, and IKEA proved popular for its flexible management style.
Most students see their first job as a spring board that lands them in a middle manager position ideally within four years. The desired starting salary was upward of Ft 161,000 net, which students would like to see nearly tripled in five years’ time.
4 years experience makes one a middle manager? Wow, there must be a lot of experience to be gained here in HU over other countries like the UK. Yes, of course, a 26 year old HU must be the equivalent of a 35 year old Brit and is definitely worth (when grossed up correctly at today’s exchange rate) 50K GBP per year.
this is a survery of students- they may be a little out of touch. but the economics students?
hrm, let’s do the math – 3 * 161k = 480k, go to hrportal.hu, find a brutto salary that gives netto 480k – 1M HUF/mo – change to EUR, mult by 12 = 48k EUR/ yr.
to be fair, when i was 17, i was pretty sure (wrongly) i was going to be a millionaire by 25 too… (and not in HUF)
oh, i missed the extra 300k HUF the employer pays in taxes for the health-care system… eh, i’m not going to re-calculate.