Recruiting the Millennial Generation

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They’re hardworking and enthusiastic, but they won’t settle for just any job!

Use your millennial employees as recruiters. Use fresh employees into their careers who can describe what life is like at your organization. Discuss some unorthodox topics, like flextime policies and workplace daily life along with the traditional metrics of company success.

Give Flashier Presentations – PowerPoint is out. Millenials wan to see stimulating presentations that are similar to websites. Consider short videos with employees saying what they like best about their job.

Have Easy Online Job Applications – Millenials like applying via an anonymous, digital interface. They want to apply on their own time, in their everyday clothes. Millenials feel more secure applying online. They feel it’s riskier to write a Social Security number on a paper application than on a secure website.

Connect employees to issues they care about – the Millenials’ exposure to the 9/11 terrorist attacks left them with an unyielding desire to find substance in their lives. They want to make each day count. Meaningfulness has many interpretations, which means you could adopt a local charity and still not attract a crowd of Millenials. Assure these restless people that they can work at the same company for 30 years and have a myriad of jobs, experiences, and opportunities.

Take a clue from Google. While traditional companies shy away from training employees who might fly the coop, Google puts its strongest young recruits into management positions and gives them two years of hands-on training as a way to attract the best and brightest.


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