Generation Y Takeover: How Recruitment is Changing
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:28 am
We’re often chastised as an indecisive generation that doesn’t know what’s good for it. On the tube this morning, I was listening to Jason Calacanis argue that millennials are innately selfish - we’re looking for personal growth, things that we need/have to do. 18 months into a new job we decide that we have to go to Tibet. No, the company don’t have an office out there, but it’s not about them, it’s about us. Today’s graduates aren’t looking to find a job, batten down the hatches and ride it out, they want to knit together a patchwork quilt of ‘life experiences’, when the going gets tough, they don’t get going, they just go.
We want to be adored
Adulation, praise and leisure time. These are a few of our favourite things. Outspoken ‘Gen Y experts’ blame childhoods filled with trophies and constant praise for our fragile egos and aversion to good, old fashioned hard work. From costa rica whatsapp phone number a young age we’ve been taught to look after ‘numero uno’ - a recent University of Michigan study of 13,737 college students found that young people today are ‘40% lower in empathy that their counterparts of 20, or 30 years ago’. 40%. That’s a lot. Psychology professor Jean Twenge brands us ‘Generation Me’ - with a certain satisfaction she argues that our ‘soaring expectations’ will, sooner or later be met with ‘crushing realities’.
Ok. So those are some compelling stats, they’d definitely make you sound cool at parties, but what do we really want? Adulation seems to fit the bill for many. The bright lights of celebrity shine brighter for the young, and giving ‘role models’ like Lauren Goodger (‘Towie’) column inches for ‘avoiding puddles’ encourages people to think that, when everyone cracks open The Daily Mail at lunchtime, they could be the topic of discussion.
We want to be adored
Adulation, praise and leisure time. These are a few of our favourite things. Outspoken ‘Gen Y experts’ blame childhoods filled with trophies and constant praise for our fragile egos and aversion to good, old fashioned hard work. From costa rica whatsapp phone number a young age we’ve been taught to look after ‘numero uno’ - a recent University of Michigan study of 13,737 college students found that young people today are ‘40% lower in empathy that their counterparts of 20, or 30 years ago’. 40%. That’s a lot. Psychology professor Jean Twenge brands us ‘Generation Me’ - with a certain satisfaction she argues that our ‘soaring expectations’ will, sooner or later be met with ‘crushing realities’.
Ok. So those are some compelling stats, they’d definitely make you sound cool at parties, but what do we really want? Adulation seems to fit the bill for many. The bright lights of celebrity shine brighter for the young, and giving ‘role models’ like Lauren Goodger (‘Towie’) column inches for ‘avoiding puddles’ encourages people to think that, when everyone cracks open The Daily Mail at lunchtime, they could be the topic of discussion.