Strategy, finance and digital are the desired areas of work for young managers.
This is how the results of a survey of 700 master's students at the TUM School of Management in Munich, which the university published together with the personnel consultancy Heidrick and Struggles, can be interpreted.
The budding business economists were asked to name the thematic priorities that they would like to work on when they start their career.
After strategy, finance and digital comes the topic of sustainability.
Personnel management, on the other hand, is not very popular.
Just over half of the Master's students can well imagine starting a career abroad, and as many as 88 percent say that they would like to work abroad for some time at some point in their professional life.
According to the survey, soft criteria play a major role in the choice of the first professional station.
The young people named a pleasant working atmosphere, a good work-life balance and flexible forms of work, such as the possibility of sabbaticals or working from home, as the most important motivators.
A high income is only fourth on the wish list.
More than 90 percent of Master's students rate themselves as ambitious or very ambitious when it comes to their professional careers.
At the same time, around a third agrees with the statement that in recent years it has been easy for well-trained career starters in business administration and other economics courses to get a good start to their careers.
The majority believes that companies should apply for young talent rather than vice versa.