Employment is a timely topic of national economy nowadays, within which, increasing the employment chances of fresh entrants has great priority. The fact is that this employee group has the lowest chance of finding work. It is no wonder, then, that this year, we initiated an all-inclusive research to find out about the open or latent preconceptions of the labour market about this group (be them positive or negative ones); we conducted the research from the point of view of both employees and employers. We used qualitative, as well as quantitative research methods in the case of both groups. In our current essay, we are presenting the partial results of the questionnaires we handed out to labour market entrants; we essentially wanted to see how these young people see their strengths and weaknesses as well as how much they think they are prepared for the daily demands of the labour market