Millennials. They’re a big deal. Maybe you’ve heard. Shear numbers alone mean we can’t ignore them. In fact, more than one in three American labor force participants (35 percent) are millennials, making them the largest generation in the U.S. labor…
Generational Issues
How to Make Baby Boomers Your Secret Weapon in the War for Talent
The skills needed for tomorrow’s workforce are changing more rapidly than university curricula can teach them. Some even doubt that the university system can deliver the skills required for an increasingly technology-driven market. For this reason, the youngest part of…
New Class of 500 Startups Has Been Announced; These 4 are Workforce Related
500 Startups is ramping up its next group of companies to go through its early-stage startup program. Announced on August 8, there are 36 startups in the current class. There have been eight employment-related companies go through the program in the past, including Blueboard,…
Failure to Launch: Millennials in the Workforce
Millennials are now the largest living cohort in America, numbering about 75 million. Every generation is different from the ones that came before, but this group is different in one unusual way. They seem determined to delay accepting adulthood for…
Wait, What? McDonald’s is Hoping to Hire How Many People With the Help of Snapchat?
Recruitment with Snapchat has predominantly been a sideshow. Aside from a dash of employer branding with Spectacles, their eyeglasses, and a little dabbling Down Under, there has been nothing of significance. And certainly nothing that would get the attention of a serious employer. Granted,…
Kimberly-Clark On a Hunt for ‘Original Thinkers’
They’re feeling the need to keep older workers’ knowledge with them, but simultaneously bring on millennials and brand themselves as cutting-edge, innovative companies: I’m talking about GE, Mastercard, ADP, and many others, including now Kimberly-Clark. The maker of Kleenexes, Cottonelle, and Huggies…
Millennials Are Different — Very Different
Like any generation, millennials do a lot that give HR teams pause. Gen X was difficult to manage and motivate, and had different perspectives on work and work/life balance than previous generations. There are skill gaps between new young hires…
The Final Generation — Recruiting Gen ‘Z’
The millennials are so yesterday. Now it’s time to start thinking about recruiting Generation Z — defined as those born between the mid 1990s and 2010 and now representing over a quarter of the US population. (What comes next –…
The Silver Tsunami – Recruiting an Aging Labor Force
Demographic changes will affect recruitment in coming years The American labor force is getting older and will get smaller. Already, one in three American workers is over the age of 50. By 2019 every baby boomer — 44 percent of…
Migrating Knowledge Across Generations: A Talent Challenge and Opportunity
2015 was a pivotal year in the U.S. workforce. In 2015, there was an equivalent number of workers (approximately 50 million) in each of the Baby Boomer, Generation X, and Gen Y/millennial generations. This is the only time to date that the…
Gen Xers: Skills, Strengths, and Shortcomings
Fair or not, most Gen Xers see themselves as the older, responsible child doing dishes and taking out the trash while the baby boomers and millennials argue over the TV remote. While the smartphone might personify millennials, and Woodstock exemplified…