America's college students will soon be cast out into a struggling economic landscape in search of employment. Luckily, college students believe in their ability to get the job done. Far more than the people hiring them do, in fact.

Inside Higher Ed notes the findings of a new survey conducted by Chegg that measured how prepared college students think they are for the workplace, and, separately, polled hiring managers on their own beliefs about how prepared college students are. A classic comic setup if ever there was one! The survey reveals, as it puts it in the most polite possible terms, "a gap between the skills hiring managers reported seeing in recent graduates and the skills the students perceive themselves as having mastered." For starters, 50% of college students say they're very prepared for the workplace, whereas only 39% of hiring managers—who've actually seen college students in action, in the workplace—agree.

Also: more than two thirds of students think their GPA is important, but less than half of hiring managers say