{"id":962,"date":"2007-05-29T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-high-maintenance-generation\/"},"modified":"2007-05-29T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T19:16:40","slug":"a-high-maintenance-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-high-maintenance-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"A High-Maintenance Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this quick blurb from the Pioneer Press &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_5988409?source=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout Y Generation<\/a>&nbsp;(emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Generation Y is coming of age, and &#8220;manage&#8221; &#8211; as in telling them what to do and how to do it &#8211; appears not to be in their vocabulary. <\/p>\n<p>Gen Y was born between 1977 and 1995, and Fortune (June 4) says the 20-somethings really are different. &#8220;<strong>This is the most high-maintenance work force in history<\/strong>. The good news is they&#8217;re also going to be the most high-performing,&#8221; the magazine reports. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Companies that want to attract the stars of this highly competitive generation must be creative. At JPMorgan, for instance, job candidates can play Fantasy Futures, a virtual trading game in the fantasy football mold. Spotting a Gen Y member isn&#8217;t especially difficult, says Fortune. Just look for the boombox earphones, hipster clothes, designer coffee, <em>BlackBerry, iPod, laptop and digital camera<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We have a customer who refers this generation as &#8220;wired.&#8221;&nbsp; An apt description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this quick blurb from the Pioneer Press &#8211; Talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout Y Generation&nbsp;(emphasis mine): Generation Y is coming of age, and &#8220;manage&#8221; &#8211; as in telling them what to do and how to do it &#8211; appears not to be in their vocabulary. Gen Y was born between 1977 and 1995, and Fortune (June 4) says the 20-somethings really are different. &#8220;This is the most high-maintenance work force in history. The good news is they&#8217;re also going to be the most high-performing,&#8221; the magazine reports. &#8230; Companies that want to attract the stars of this highly competitive generation must be creative. At JPMorgan, for instance, job candidates can play&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-high-maintenance-generation\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-fw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->