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By Blake Sunshine It can be tough to be a Millennial at work. Especially when you are working with people who are 10 to 30 years older than you. And while Millennials sometimes get a bad reputation, we know that we bring value to the workplace. Of course, it’s important that we play nice with [...]

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By Grace Boyle My co-worker and close friend, Tara is Gen X. She pokes fun because I’m Gen Y. I laugh it off. It’s funny. We don’t have any other riffs besides our generational jokes. At the startup I work for, we’re about 30% Gen Y, 60% Gen X and 10% Boomers. I’m one of [...]

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By Poliana de Oliveira* Growing up as an immigrant child is funny. Especially in the US where t here are tons of us. You are raised at home with a set of principles that aren’t necessarily those of the country you live in and so you think it’s funny when people at school have different [...]

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By Ines Schinaz I spoke with Penelope Trunk, the founder and CEO of Brazen Careerist.com Ines: You talk about how your own career never had a straight path. How did you get the idea for your blog? Was there a particular experience that made you decide to create it? Penelope: I was a columnist at [...]

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By Andy Teach It’s funny how sometimes we miss the most obvious things in the workplace. I was an executive in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. As a Baby Boomer, I managed many members of Generation Y during that time. If I had any difficulties managing a Gen Y’er, I always assumed that [...]

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As children, we learn that fear is a perfectly acceptable and normal emotion. As we watch young kids, it’s rather funny that they sometimes fear the most harmless things. As adults, we are able to ease their fears, and calm them down. But what about when we grow up? Who helps us overcome our adult [...]

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We knew it was going to happen eventually.  We just didn’t want to believe it.  We knew the day would come when Generation Y would lead the way, as our bosses. Remember that movie “In Good Company?” That movie totally predicted this sort of situation, although it did seem a bit unrealistic at the time.   [...]

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I often hear people complaining that Generation Y doesn’t know how to write. They make grotesque grammar and spelling mistakes. And on top of that, they speak a different language, one that older people, can’t understand. Their language consists of slang and acronyms, and it’s often impossible to decipher. Yet generation Y doesn’t seem to [...]

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I’m extremely happy to find out that Grupo Foco is the first business in Brazil to conduct job recruitment processes through social media.  We do this for our own team as well as for our clients. Our team navigates through countless social networks (Blog, Twitter, Linked In, and Orkut, among many others) until we find [...]

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Lately, I’ve come across a lot of articles that attempt to teach Generation Y how to behave. There are tips about almost everything. From interviews, to jobs, to cyber space etiquette, there are all sorts of “do’s” and “Don’ts.” This is especially true regarding online social networks, where a whole bundle of rules apply. On [...]

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