Imagine working at a place which gives you the freedom to choose your own hours; a place where you can find the time to travel or take care of your elderly parents or children. More and more people are citing flexibility as a key workplace attribute – a trend that seems to continue growing thanks [...]
The New Age Workforce How to Manage Millennials: Those born between 1980 and 1999 are now the largest segment of the workforce, surpassing 33% of workers in 2015 according to Pew Research Center. My previous blog made note of the volumes of discussion and writings musing about this key segment of our population. The irony [...]
Ensuring Success with Your Recent Millennial Hire Much has been written about the difficulty in attracting and recruiting millennials. Likewise, there are volumes of articles, blogs, books and tweets about perceived difficulties in managing, motivating, retaining - in truth, understanding millennials in the context of a traditional work environment. Millennials experience, like all employees, begins [...]
Millennial's and the New Workforce Part two – Retention In part one of the series I postulated that we have mistakenly made numerous false assumptions about the character and motivations of Millennials. Boomers and GenYers have applied our aged paradigms to a generation that they don’t fit. Recognizing the value, ambition and creativity of Millennials [...]
Millennials in the Workforce Part One - Hiring I’m 57. A Boomer. I not supposed to enjoy or embrace hiring Millennials. We have all read the large volume of blogs, articles, and treatises on why Millennials are not satisfactory employees: Lazy, disloyal, lax work ethic, entitled, self-assured. With close to 40% of the current workforce [...]
Recruiting for the Next Generation Recruiting Millennials Millennial, it is a word that keeps popping up on our radar more and more often these days, but who does it actually refer to? A millennial is anyone that was born between the years of 1980 and 1999. Yes that is a 19 year gap including the [...]
