{"id":937,"date":"2007-05-19T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T12:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-quick-lesson-on-millennials-gen-y\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T07:40:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T12:40:18","slug":"a-quick-lesson-on-millennials-gen-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-quick-lesson-on-millennials-gen-y\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Lesson On Millennials (Gen Y)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABCnews.com offers a comprehensive article explaining some traits of the Millennial generation &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/CareerManagement\/story?id=3188531&amp;page=1&amp;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\">Meet the New Millennials<\/a>.  The lengthy article provides many different insights into this generation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some anecdotal highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We recently had to tell a young woman employee that this was not an underwear optional workplace,&#8221; he told ABCNEWS.com. &#8220;This generation needs to be deeply coached about wardrobe, and a lot of them are used to getting up at 10 or 11 a.m. Forget about them showing up to work at 8 or 9 a.m.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They grew up with an &#8216;everyone gets a trophy&#8217; sense of entitlement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are members of a generation that thinks it should get a trophy just for waking up in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a human resources manager call me about a worker who received her performance review only to have her mother call up and complain that &#8216;she&#8217;s better than that,'&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;The HR manager was shocked and asked the mother why she was calling about her daughter. The mother responded, &#8216;Because I&#8217;ve done so throughout my daughter&#8217;s life.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of those stories are almost shocking.  I have to admit we do not have extensive experience with this generation when it comes to hiring.  Some of these stories would give us pause.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of managing this generation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The millennials are more collaborative and require a different form of managing,&#8221; said Masie. &#8220;There are more self-starters in this generation; they are clearly different than their bosses. <strong>The average worker under the age of 25 doesn&#8217;t expect to remain at a company for more than three years.<\/strong> They expect a sequence of jobs over their lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Managing short-term employees who have different values and expectations sometimes requires managers to practice more than a little bit of patience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you catch that bolded information?  This change in career philosophy is having a tremendous impact on hiring today.  The days of one company careers are all but over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABCnews.com offers a comprehensive article explaining some traits of the Millennial generation &#8211; Meet the New Millennials. The lengthy article provides many different insights into this generation. Here are some anecdotal highlights: &#8220;We recently had to tell a young woman employee that this was not an underwear optional workplace,&#8221; he told ABCNEWS.com. &#8220;This generation needs to be deeply coached about wardrobe, and a lot of them are used to getting up at 10 or 11 a.m. Forget about them showing up to work at 8 or 9 a.m.&#8221; &#8220;They grew up with an &#8216;everyone gets a trophy&#8217; sense of entitlement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are members of a generation that thinks&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-quick-lesson-on-millennials-gen-y\/\">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":[11,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-f7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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