News Round-Up
Some interesting Y-related stories from the past week:
Toronto Police Welcome Generation Y
From Toronto Police Services Chair Dr. Alok Mukherjee:
So – what do “Yers” want?
An interesting job with many changes and challenges
Work-life balance
Superior training
Access to cutting-edge technologyWhere can they find all that? The Toronto Police Service.
Generation Y demands Instant Messaging at Work
From Computer Business Review:
77% of the Generation Y respondents believed that a webcam and access to instant messaging in the office (73%) would help them offer clients and suppliers a faster and more personal response.
Make the workplace fun to retain Gen Y
From The Nashville Business Journal:
Employers who recognize Gen X and Y’s needs will retain them longer and get more and better work from them. Create a “fun” work environment. Employers who embrace a fun, rather than conventional company culture create a higher rate of job satisfaction with younger employees.
What does fun mean? It means converting the breakroom to a game room with video games. It means periodically bringing in a massage therapist for chair massages, an ice cream cart for sundaes or a rolling barista for onsite lattes.
Job Hopping an Option for Gen Y
From Penelope Trunk in the Boston Globe:
So there’s lots of chatter about how people can recession-proof their careers. But what should young people do, when their golden demographics make them recession proof already? Job hop, of course.
The best thing you can do early in your career is move around a lot so you can figure out what you’re good at and what you like. If you compare people who job hop with people who don’t, people who job hop build their network faster, build their skill set faster, and are more engaged in their work.
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