By Sarah Newton – @sarahnewton These are some tips I recently wrote for the retail sector and thought they would be useful to share. Sterotype One -Teens are Lazy Tip – resume – Ensure it looks professional and is all formatted and spelt correctly. Any gaps in your previous experience (like a gap year, for [...]
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By Lindsey Wright* With the flexibility of online coursework, it’s no wonder why so many students are choosing web-based education programs. Having the freedom to complete work on their own time allows students the opportunity to tend to their daily schedules of work and parenting. Thanks to online education, more individuals are able to get [...]
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By Carol Phillips* Millennials are the first generation to be educated at a time when knowledge is both plentiful and accessible. Educators are struggling to make the shift from a model that was intent on helping students acquire knowledge through a prescribed path (a path that had been tried and tested over centuries), to one [...]
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By Sarah Newton I recently found this article talking about Gen Z and their entering the workforce. I thought it was interesting on two fronts; one because we are beginning to talk about Gen Z and two, because it appeared to be giving out the wrong information. So I thought I would share my counter [...]
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By Carol Phillips* “Oh man, I’d make a career out of the Muppets if I could. That’s my real dream job…” — Jason Potteiger, comment on The Next Great Generation Blog When the Founding Fathers wrote “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” I think they must have had Millennials in mind. For the framers, [...]
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By Sarah Newton I found this great post written by Josip Petrusa which was aimed at marketers, but I thought it would be also useful to share here with my thoughts. Quick Ways to think like a Millennial 1. If it’s slower than a text message, it’s too slow. Youth want quick feedback, not a [...]
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By Sarah Newton There is no doubt that the work force has become so much more diverse in every way. From the amount of different generations, the retirement age higher than ever and the gap between young and old and their beliefs of and use of technology have created some big canyons that employers have [...]
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By Sarah Newton It seems long gone are the days when as employers we can forget social media and how we can use it to connect with potential or new employees. However many employers are concerned about the information their employees are sharing on social media sites and there have been cases of employees been [...]
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Posted in Generation Y, Millennial on jul 23rd, 2010
By Blake Sunshine* The hardest part about growing up is figuring out what you want. For a lot of Gen-Y’s this means deciding what to do after graduation. But even years after graduation, the journey of knowing what you want never seems to end. Figuring out what you want is hard, but it becomes so [...]
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By Carol Phillips* At over 80 million strong, Millennials are a consumer market force today and will be even more important in the future. According to Alloy Media, the college market alone is made up of a record 16 million young adults with collective economic power of over $300 billion, $69 billion of which is [...]
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