Based on labor shortage and demographical changes in the Austrian population, employers have to contest more and more for qualified workforce. As a result, it becomes more essential for companies to have a market-position as an attractive employer and to present its different attractive employer features.
Nowadays, Generation Z is the youngest group of people, which joins the current job market. Especially these young people have specific requirements for their future employers and, as previous studies show, digitalization and social media play important roles in their lives.
To fill a gap in the current state of research, this thesis focuses on which employer attributes actually are the most important ones within recruiting this young generation. Also it is surveyed how to communicate these features through the companies postings on the social media-platforms LinkedIn and Xing.
In this regard, recruiting experts were interviewed and the upraised data material was analyzed through qualitative content analyses by Mayrings method. The evaluation shows flexibility, individuality, image, working atmosphere, and social and ecological topics as Generation Z’ most important employer features. Also, the results of this study show that companies should focus within their social media postings on specific linguistical and content-related criteria. Furthermore, the visualization and form of presentation of the content within the social media postings were important elements. As last result, with the goal to gain attention of persons of generation Z, it also seems to be important to achieve a convenient usability within the appearance of the social media postings.