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if given the chance, i’ll tweet for you

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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By Nick Armstrong - Millennials crave a challenge. We’re the generation that aced our lectures and Sudoku at the same time. We held full-time jobs, babysat, blogged, and managed to pull straight-A’s while keeping our hair perfect. For most of us, it’s not arrogance - just the advantage of being the new kids on the block. You want us to pay attention 40 hours a week? Don’t start by boring us to tears. Give us a challenge. Make us think. We’ll have every reason to stick around. Hell, we might even dedicate our next Tweet to you.

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what millennials really want to know

Friday, December 12, 2008

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By Lindsey Pollak - Millennials (a.k.a. Generation Y) have earned a less-than-stellar reputation in the recruiting community. You’re not alone if you've found young candidates to act "entitled" to jobs or not know basic rules of professional etiquette. As someone who spends a lot of time with college students and young professionals, I admit that I observe these traits fairly often. In the spirit of helping us all understand each other a little better, here the three most common questions I receive from Millennial job seekers.

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millennials want bags of money and praise, author says

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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By Vanessa Dennis - Lisa Orrell, author of Millennials Incorporated, talks about what Millennials look for in a company and how recruiting strategies need to incorporate more social media to reach a younger audience.

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beyond myspace & facebook recruiting

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Amy Lynch of Bottom Line Conversation in Nashville presented at the recent SMA conference on recruiting millennials. In it, she said employers need to move past general social networking site like MySpace and Facebook and look into more niche-specific networks like We Play. Considering the fact I think most employers are still trying to get their [...]

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‘the newspaper is for losers’

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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In a session on millennials at SMA, one particular audience member. Lisa Browder, stood out as a recent dissenter from newspapers, favoring the world of Craigslist. Although not mentioned in the interview, one of the more memorable comments in speaking to her was the feedback from job candidates in Gen Y who thought “newspapers were [...]

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‘millennials don’t go to job boards’

Thursday, April 3, 2008

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If you ever have the pleasure of interviewing Gen Y expert Penelope Trunk, you’ll quickly discover things don’t go as planned. It’s curve-balls galore. My latest chat with her was no exception, as I attempted to get more information over a comment she made in her keynote at the ERE conference this week, essentially saying, “millennials [...]

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