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Know It Alls

... . Professionally speaking, although plenty of jobs still require highly specific skills, many young people are diversifying their career trajectories by building their own career paths and mixing up their professional development (see Build Your Own Career). When the Great Recession hit, young professionals were forced to become adaptable in order to remain employed, and now the ability to explore varied interests and pivot into new roles is a highly desirable facet of working life for younger generations. To ...

(Net)Work Hard, Play Hard

... facilitators that corral contacts and manage logistics so they can reap the rewards both personally and professionally.Networking has long been critical to a successful career, and for good reason. As detailed in the Harvard Business Review, a mountain of research shows that professional networks lead to more job and business opportunities, broader and deeper knowledge, improved capacity to innovate, faster advancement, and greater status and authority. Nurturing professional relationships also improves ...

Making A Living

... desirable to many Ys and Zs because they may not want to make a long-term commitment to a career that lacks flexibility and requires decades of dedication. Today, young adults working in law may decide they don't want to make partner because it doesn't allow for the lifestyle they want, whereas this would have been the obvious end goal for someone in this field in previous decades. Similarly, many young adults in the finance industry are finding that the lifestyle is undesirable and moving to startups ...

School Of (Work)Life

... ;This is certainly not to say that Ys and Zs expect work to be all fun and games. In fact, quite the opposite, as the companies that are winning over young workers are also those that prioritize employees’ personal development and ensure they’re always learning and growing; 78% of young adults and 87% of Trendsetters say it’s important for them to see how a company they work for can contribute to their personal growth/career development. Just as school emphasizes how learning is much more than the ...

Build Your Own Career

... taking a DIY approach to their career path. Unlike when Baby Boomers or Gen Xers were young professionals, youth today aren’t following traditional career paths. With many other factors affecting the job market as well as their evolving preferences, such steady, clear-cut routes are not as desirable to young professionals today as they were in the past. Ys experienced the impact the Great Recession had on the job market firsthand, and thus don’t count on having the stability of a ready-made corporate ...

Job Search Party

... career path and the upswing in the gig economy have also led them to seek new jobs more often than their predecessors, requiring a renovation of the traditional job search to align with their expectations. As the workplace becomes more social to better serve young generations' preferences, the job hunt has as well. More companies are turning to social media to recruit potential employees, and some new search services resemble dating apps (see examples). Mediums that Ys and Zs are comfortable with in ...

The Gig Is Up

... access technology has provided for seeking out job options (see examples), Ys and Zs are the first generations that have the ability to capitalize on the money-making opportunities provided by the gig economy. The gig economy is only growing, and as expectations evolve, services are emerging to provide benefits, which is often considered to be a major drawback of participating in this marketplace. The gig economy takes youth’s propensity to Build Your Own Career to greater heights by giving them ...