Comments on: Why Generation Y Hates You http://www.ere.net/2007/04/10/why-generation-y-hates-you/ Recruiting intelligence. Recruiting community. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:13:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Rees http://www.ere.net/2007/04/10/why-generation-y-hates-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3994 David Rees Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:16:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/04/10/why-generation-y-hates-you/#comment-3994 It is certainly a two way street - all of this connectedness and networking. Yes, if you treat a candidate poorly, they can tell everyone on their blog, myspace and AIM. At the same time, it is getting easier to get intel on candidates by searching social networks for email addresses. A recruiter I worked with had candidate last year who claimed to have a BSEE from an institution we had never heard of. The client asked us to look into it and while searching google, we discovered a page where he described his belief in (and study of) vampires, UFOs and other things likely to raise the eyebrows of a small town manufacturing company. The pictures were the icing on the cake and his candidacy was withdrawn. There is very little privacy anymore and we have all but lost our ability to compartmentalize our life - especially if we live out that life on the internet. It is certainly a two way street – all of this connectedness and networking. Yes, if you treat a candidate poorly, they can tell everyone on their blog, myspace and AIM.

At the same time, it is getting easier to get intel on candidates by searching social networks for email addresses.

A recruiter I worked with had candidate last year who claimed to have a BSEE from an institution we had never heard of. The client asked us to look into it and while searching google, we discovered a page where he described his belief in (and study of) vampires, UFOs and other things likely to raise the eyebrows of a small town manufacturing company. The pictures were the icing on the cake and his candidacy was withdrawn.

There is very little privacy anymore and we have all but lost our ability to compartmentalize our life – especially if we live out that life on the internet.

]]> By: Maureen Sharib http://www.ere.net/2007/04/10/why-generation-y-hates-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3993 Maureen Sharib Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:24:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/04/10/why-generation-y-hates-you/#comment-3993 'The managers were asking provoking questions including, 'Why do you want to work for us?' and 'Tell me why I should not end this interview after 20 minutes?' I am horrified to think (and I believe it IS happening) that passively sourced candidates are being treated this way. We're beating our brains out here and working our dial fingers to the bone trying to locate these people and some of them are approached like this? I shudder to think. I think about the disconnect I see between the young lab rat on CSI Las Vegas and his older crime scene co-workers ? how sometimes he just looks at them and shakes his head, confident in his own skin and prowess in spite of his young years. There?s a lot of confidence out there and a lot of promise in these young lions and we?d better listen up and pay attention to the new marching tune. If we?re going to continue to put these promising young cadets at a distance (on the defense) when we contact them we deserve to fail in our hiring efforts, we deserve to lose out to cultures and companies who ?get? the basic tenets of civility. ‘The managers were asking provoking questions including, ‘Why do you want to work for us?’ and ‘Tell me why I should not end this interview after 20 minutes?’

I am horrified to think (and I believe it IS happening) that passively sourced candidates are being treated this way. We’re beating our brains out here and working our dial fingers to the bone trying to locate these people and some of them are approached like this? I shudder to think.

I think about the disconnect I see between the young lab rat on CSI Las Vegas and his older crime scene co-workers ? how sometimes he just looks at them and shakes his head, confident in his own skin and prowess in spite of his young years.

There?s a lot of confidence out there and a lot of promise in these young lions and we?d better listen up and pay attention to the new marching tune. If we?re going to continue to put these promising young cadets at a distance (on the defense) when we contact them we deserve to fail in our hiring efforts, we deserve to lose out to cultures and companies who ?get? the basic tenets of civility.

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