Archive for March 2019
How to Recruit Millennials and Gen Y – 3 Groundbreaking Mindset Shifts
Read an article or two on recruiting Millennials (born 1981-1996) and you will find a lot of the same advice: build relationships, provide career growth opportunities, focusing on a mission, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of this advice applies to many generations. Ask a generation that wouldn’t prefer an authentic hiring manager, or a recruiter that…
Read More6 Proven Ways to Effectively Retain Millennial Employees
With all the articles out there on retaining Millennial employees, many of them are helpful in showing what the key areas are, but rarely how to implement it. For instance, when someone says creating growth opportunities, how do you actually implement that in the workplace? Do you give your employees extra projects? Do you promote…
Read MoreWhat is the Difference Between Generation Y and Millennial?
So what is the difference between Millennials and Generation Y? Are they the same thing? But if they are, why are there two different names? These questions always drive me crazy when I read about generations in the media, so I decided to write this article to set the record straight. Often, people use them…
Read MoreWhat are Millennials? (Generation Y) 2019 Update
Whenever I travel around the world, helping companies with generations the Millennial generation always come up. More specifically, What is it? What does it mean? And how will knowing more about it benefit me? I tell them Millennials or Generation Y, are the behavior patterns associated with people born in specific time frame…
Read MoreMillennial Burnout Is Not Real – Here’s Why
Recently, the concept of Millennials experiencing burnout has gone mainstream from a Buzzfeed article. In the article, Anne Helen Petersen does an amazing job painting the struggle Millennials (born 1980-1996) experience in their steady careers. While I agree with her on many points, I don’t believe this is Millennial burnout, but its Society Burnout What…
Read MoreWant to Make Better Decisions? Researchers Say Do These 5 Things to Succeed
Wherever you are in your career, it never hurts to learn how to make better decisions. In fact, the point that you are at in your career currently can be attested to various decisions that you made in the past. Poor destination, poor decisions. Great destination- you get the picture. When articles are written about…
Read MoreThat’s Not Fair! How Being Fair Creates Poor Decision Making
“Wow! I can’t believe they did that!” If you ever been to a car dealership you might have said this once or twice. Dealerships are known to be a battleground for top notch sales people manipulating unaware buyers. While this not always be true, many people have had extremely uncomfortable heated negotiations at dealership that…
Read MoreCan’t Seem to Focus? Here’s a 4-step Strategy that a Nobel Prize Winner Suggests to Increase Self-Control
“I just can’t seem to get it done.” Whether you are trying to lose weight, be financially smarter, or make better decisions at work, mastering self control can completely transform the direction of your life. However, the promise of increased self control has been promoted by so many fitness experts and personal development gurus,…
Read MoreWorried about your credit score? Turns out Millennials have lower credit scores than previous generations and it should be that way
In a recent article by LendingTree, the researchers compared generations and their credit scores finding that Millennials have the lower credit score of all the previous generations. While this may sound like Millennials are accumulated more debt, superficial, or just don’t know how to build strong credit, there is something else at play here.…
Read MoreTop 5 Almost-Darwin Selfies
I couldn’t believe it when I read the news this week to find out a Millennial, tried to take a selfie at a zoo and… was attacked by a jaguar. Sometimes we live in a virtual reality world to such a degree that its hard to tell when is a good idea from a darwinian…
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