Wednesday, November 11, 2009

3 Strong tips in attracting Gen X and Millennials

Young people can now rent a big challenge. Not to mention the retention, loyalty and productivity issues. But retention issues can be reduced or minimized a bit more thought on to the recruitment and the initiation of the quality of new employees. If you wanted to go fishing, you might not be able to tend to the efforts to a pond where you can be sure there were plenty of fish? And with the Internet, with a little thought and research, you can not only find theVehicle from a younger generation, Gen Xer, and spend their time, but you can create awareness of the opportunities in your company and a small positive perception and branding as well.

Most managers can describe people under the age of 40, the "non-traditional" best. May be a lack of understanding in relation to their new values and unique characteristics - can be good for us, frustrating, old man. So it is perhaps useful, they do not win in the traditional manner.
Most managers and HR managers are in a 'genre boomers and understand the "traditional" Internet, but recent studies show that well over 80% of employees aged under 40 text messaging and blogging and review of sites like My Space, "" Facebook ", Craigslist and others at least a few times a day. Now, any comment, as this impacts on productivity at work must wait for another article, but smart managers use the information their competitiveness positivelyAdvantage.

Craigslist.org

Recently I was coaching and learned to work with a young (30 something) editor of a magazine moderate conservative and a valuable lesson. In the first dialogue on the basis of my research of Gen X employees, I was curious as to what originally drew him to the position.
He read about the possibility of Craigslist.org. I was really impressed with how I would have accepted his boss (a friend of mine, did not know my age over 50) on Craigslistwith the exception of an online flea market vehicle. Summarized job creation through the thousands of specific job category groups and can be focused on your specific city or region.

Blogs

Second, blogs can be a huge non-traditional research and free job advertisement tool. As an example, just go to sites like blogsearch.google.com or waypath.com or lsblogs.com, (there are hundreds of blog search to see sites) and enter a basic task term such as "office worker" andHundreds of blog sites on this subject, and then scan for the regional industry or related sites where you want to maximize contributions.

Personal pages and sites Network Communication

Welcome to the new world. If you are not on Linked In or Facebook or twitter.com, or one of these ever-growing network of web sites that you might be missing a great opportunity to connect to. Still, the most successful job close with not so much "what you know", but "who you know." And thisSides are only an extension of the premise that it is often the case.

We might all be better served in the executive branch over the world at the age of 50, to the world of non-traditional employees, the Gen X and Gen Y (younger generation), which now account for more than 50% of the national workers' pool, and try some non-traditional sources to attract top talent for our company. It only makes sense to go fishing where the fish are.

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