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Who are the Millennials and what you need to know when you work with them? Trends and workforce evolution
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Who are the Millennials and what you need to know when you work with them?

Trends and workforce evolution

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Hot topics

Workforce crisis Millennials – the “ME” generation Future trends Solutions

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Roxana-Nicoleta Vintila

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Conclusions

By 2030 There will be a global workforce crisis due to:

A massive labor shortage

A huge skills mismatch

Cultural challenge

Millennials will represent the majority of the global workforce

Solutions Migration - an important no. of young people willing to move to other countries

Training and education - educate the workforce for the future jobs

Retention - companies should focus on culture

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The “ME“ generation

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Who are the Millennials?

Born between 1980 - 2000

“I can do everything!” & “I am the

best!”

Social media generation

Flexibility Innovation

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Who are the Millennials?

Between 20 – 30 they

experiment

Seek mentors to guide them

3 years tops on the same

positionSelf centered

NO 9-5/6 schedule

Continuous feedback and recognition

Very sensible to criticism WHY?

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@WORK

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Who are the Millennials?

“Lazy” vs. “very

educated”

Eager to learn new things Entrepreneurs

Not so focused on building a

family or having babies

Don’t print it, if you can e-mail

it!

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Millennials’ strong points

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Creativity

Flexibility

Innovation

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Perfect jobs for Millennials

Agile developers

Agile managers

Consultants

HR: Recruiters and Career Counselors

PR and Social Media experts

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How to adapt and work with Millennials?What companies should do?

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12Key points companies should pay attention to when working with Millennials

Creativity

1. Tell them WHAT to do• not HOW to do

it

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13Key points companies should pay attention to when working with Millennials

Feedback and recognition

2. Offer continuous feedback

3. Use the magic words “Thank you!” and “Bravo!” as often as you can

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14Key points companies should pay attention to when working with Millennials

Self centered

4. Build special engagement policies, to integrate them in the team

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15Key points companies should pay attention to when working with Millennials

3 years tops on the same position

5. Pay special attention to talents retention, and don’t forget that the workforce crisis is next door

6. Encourage the internal mobility so they can have access to: new positions, new platforms, new team members, new clients, etc.

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16Key points companies should pay attention to when working with Millennials

Eager to learn new things

7. Build internal trainings platforms so that they can become the specialists you will need the next 3-5 years

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17Key points companies should pay attention to when working with Millennials

Innovation

8. Use their creativity to challenge the way things are done

9. Encourage them to present their ideas and propose innovative solutions

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Q & A

I’m a Millennial so:

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Roxana-Nicoleta Vintila