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The Baby Boomer Generation, who have been Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (0) | Blog
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As a popular and controversial blogger on career management, Penelope Trunk (who formerly blogged for Yahoo! finance), knows how to get attention. She does it by giving contrarian advice (“why graduate school is outdated"), blogging about her marital problems and dating life, and by frequent references to sex (always with connection to a career issue),
This week, she’s hoping to shine the spotlight on Brazen Careerist, an online network she has co-founded, which she hopes will be GenY’s answer to LinkedIn.
People in different age groups network differently, says Trunk, and they need different tools to get jobs and manage their careers. As she sees it, Baby Boomers responded to ads in newspapers, Generation Jones (the tail end of the Baby Boom) used sites like Monster and Careerbuilder, and Generation X dominates LinkedIn. “We’re due for a new recruiting tool,” she explained. “And it has to deliver what Gen Y wants, which is conversations in a professional environment. They have been networking online since they used IM in the fifth grade to talk to the popular kids after school.”
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Recently, a graduating college senior asked me, “While my first choice is to find a job on my own, my family owns a business and they’d love for me to join them. Given the current state of the economy, should I consider joining the family business my best…
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Gen Yers, or Millennials, are taking the business world by storm, and you’re probably hiring them, realizing what fantastic new skills they possess and wondering how you can a) keep up with them and b) challenge them enough to stay on board!
From my experience, these…
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In the song “The Greatest Love of All,” there are the lines ‘I believe that children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way.’ Truer words were never sung. These days, our future rides on the millennial generation (born between 1980 and 2000) otherwise known as... Read More »
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Empty nesters get used to having their home to themselves pretty quickly. The peace, the quiet, the clean kitchen and mass reduction in laundry. The extra Benjamin----- ting their pocketing because they're not spending (as much) money on their now-adult children. They're gone. Out. Forever.... Read More »
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