Comments on: Sibling Rivalry with Penelope Trunk http://www.ere.net/2008/04/02/sibling-rivalry-with-penelope-trunk/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:03:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kristin Gissaro http://www.ere.net/2008/04/02/sibling-rivalry-with-penelope-trunk/comment-page-1/#comment-3619 Kristin Gissaro Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:14:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2008/04/02/sibling-rivalry-with-penelope-trunk/#comment-3619 As a fellow Gen Y cusper, I completely agree on your outlook regarding our Generation. While I wasn't able to attend the session myself, between other comments made as well as your article, I feel that there must have been a lot of generational profiling and misrepresentation during that hour. As a public speaker and blogger on Generational Recruiting on ERE...I found myself writing posts or speaking about specific generational attributes only to be proved wrong before I was even finished writing the blog or wrapping up my session. What I came to realize is that generational profiling can be very dangerous. There are Boomers that I would say act more like Gen Y and vice versa. No doubt she was referring to generalizations but I think the better way to approach it is how to utilize these "mindsets" that exist within each generation and how to apply them so everybody wins. I also am so sick of being classified as the lazy, coddled and annoying generation. In fact, personally, I think I am quite the opposite! Maybe Gen X is just jealous of their 'younger sibling', Gen Y. As a fellow Gen Y cusper, I completely agree on your outlook regarding our Generation. While I wasn’t able to attend the session myself, between other comments made as well as your article, I feel that there must have been a lot of generational profiling and misrepresentation during that hour. As a public speaker and blogger on Generational Recruiting on ERE…I found myself writing posts or speaking about specific generational attributes only to be proved wrong before I was even finished writing the blog or wrapping up my session.

What I came to realize is that generational profiling can be very dangerous. There are Boomers that I would say act more like Gen Y and vice versa. No doubt she was referring to generalizations but I think the better way to approach it is how to utilize these “mindsets” that exist within each generation and how to apply them so everybody wins.

I also am so sick of being classified as the lazy, coddled and annoying generation. In fact, personally, I think I am quite the opposite! Maybe Gen X is just jealous of their ‘younger sibling’, Gen Y.

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]]> By: Nicola Thomson http://www.ere.net/2008/04/02/sibling-rivalry-with-penelope-trunk/comment-page-1/#comment-3608 Nicola Thomson Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:52:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2008/04/02/sibling-rivalry-with-penelope-trunk/#comment-3608 I found her comments to be spot on from my experiences with Gen Y. Yes, she is a typical Gen X but her presentation was funny and, in my opinion, deliberately slanted towards the badly treated Gen X group for effect. Nothing new but an entertaining hour. I found her comments to be spot on from my experiences with Gen Y. Yes, she is a typical Gen X but her presentation was funny and, in my opinion, deliberately slanted towards the badly treated Gen X group for effect. Nothing new but an entertaining hour.

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