{"id":718,"date":"2007-03-05T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/me-time-is-vital\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T13:24:08","slug":"me-time-is-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/me-time-is-vital\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Time Is Vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Y or Millennial&nbsp;candidates take a different approach to their job search.&nbsp; If you weren&#8217;t sure of this or have yet to experience it, I give you the Pioneer Press&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/16822218.htm?source=rss&amp;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">The choosy generation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They want to work for companies that offer nice salaries and clear career paths for advancement. But many are pushing for more. Work isn&#8217;t their life, they&#8217;re saying before they even begin working, and <strong>they&#8217;re searching for employers who offer flexible work schedules that allow them to maintain their personal pursuits<\/strong>. &#8220;Me time&#8221; is vital. So is volunteering in the community \u20ac\u201d on company time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We can attest to this trend as we have seen it first-hand.&nbsp; This generation does take a bit of an entitlement mentality to their job search as the article explains.&nbsp; However, this generation does offer some amazing talent that was simply not available in our generations.&nbsp; Their wired ability leaps to mind.&nbsp; This generation is the first to grow up with computers and the Internet and it shows in their abilities.&nbsp; Yet, to land many of the talented ones, companies do need to take a new approach.&nbsp; For instance:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That comes in the form of significant vacation entitlements, in the form of imaginative alternative work programs which allow people to take leaves of absence, to work part-time, to job-share,&#8221; said Kernan.<\/p>\n<p>The firm that is willing to consider these things will be ahead of the companies that require their employees to work a lock-step eight-hour workday, he said. &#8220;We are constantly looking at and tweaking all of our work-life related programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That quote is from the <em>56 year-old managing partner<\/em> of the Twin Cities&#8217; branch of Pricewaterhouse Coopers.&nbsp; Oh how times have changed.&nbsp; One last point from the excellent article is the younger generation&#8217;s expectation to work with the management team.&nbsp; Gen Y sees the company hierarchy in a relatively horizontal manner and expect the culture to reflect that view.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today more than ever before, Slavitt is likely to field questions from job candidates about their potential level of exposure to company executives. &#8220;At a company with 5,500 people they would not be at all surprised to meet with me and others on the executive team and get that level of exposure,&#8221; Slavitt said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/16822218.htm?source=rss&amp;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Y or Millennial&nbsp;candidates take a different approach to their job search.&nbsp; If you weren&#8217;t sure of this or have yet to experience it, I give you the Pioneer Press&#8217; The choosy generation: They want to work for companies that offer nice salaries and clear career paths for advancement. But many are pushing for more. Work isn&#8217;t their life, they&#8217;re saying before they even begin working, and they&#8217;re searching for employers who offer flexible work schedules that allow them to maintain their personal pursuits. &#8220;Me time&#8221; is vital. So is volunteering in the community \u20ac\u201d on company time. We can attest to this trend as we have seen it first-hand.&nbsp;&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/me-time-is-vital\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-trends","category-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-bA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1718,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/talkin-gen-x-gen-y\/","url_meta":{"origin":718,"position":0},"title":"Talkin&#8217; Gen X, Gen Y","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"BusinessWeek.com provides a good article for adjusting your communication for Gen X and Gen Y employees.\u00a0 I can't speak to the Gen Y suggestions, but I find the Gen X piece to be spot on. 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To our surprise and our customer's dismay, she contacted them approximately 10\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1384,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/fact-or-fiction-about-the-google-generation\/","url_meta":{"origin":718,"position":4},"title":"Fact Or Fiction About The Google Generation?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't heard that moniker until now - \"Google Generation.\"\u00a0 These are kids born after 1993 so they are a handful of year away from hitting the workplace.\u00a0 Yet, there is some interesting research out there that debunks some conventional wisdom and reinforces others. 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