Generation X and Millennials Andrew Krzmarzick Graduate School, USDA

” Don't fall prey to stereotypes. We're all reading a lot of stuff about the millennials right now, and there's a tendency to paint them with the same brush. They can be very different… It's all about going out and finding people who are a good job fit, a cultural fit and a lifestyle fit .“ - Ed Powell Director of Business Development Monster Government Solutions

Flexibility

Balance

Change

Technology

Technology

Sound Bites

Sound Bites

Immediate Information

Immediate

Information

“ Within Reach But Out of Synch” Study (January 2007) Surveyed Gen Y, managers in private and non-profit sector and “Government Go Gets (G3s)” G3s = scientists, engineers, lawyers, policy experts Asked: What do you seek in your ideal job? Source: Council for Excellence in Government. Within Reach…But Out of Synch: The Possibilities and Challenges of Shaping Tomorrow’s Government Workforce . December 2006. Found at http://www.excel.gov .

“ Within Reach But Out of Synch” Study (January 2007)

Surveyed Gen Y, managers in private and non-profit sector and “Government Go Gets (G3s)”

G3s = scientists, engineers, lawyers, policy experts

Asked: What do you seek in your ideal job?

Source: Council for Excellence in Government. Within Reach…But Out of Synch: The Possibilities and Challenges of Shaping Tomorrow’s Government Workforce . December 2006. Found at http://www.excel.gov .

Top 10 Ways to Recruit and Retain Gen X and Millenials (and everyone else!)

Be committed to helping us achieve our goals Don’t mention “climbing the corporate ladder” or “paying dues” Too many of us have seen parents lose jobs after years of ladder climbing and dues-paying

Be committed to helping us achieve our goals

Don’t mention “climbing the corporate ladder” or “paying dues”

Too many of us have seen parents lose jobs after years of ladder climbing and dues-paying

Provide as much training as possible help us develop new skills while we are with you Source: Found at http://ourpublicservice.org/OPS/publications/viewcontentdetails.php?id=121.

Provide as much training as possible

help us develop new skills while we are with you

Challenge our creativity give us a challenging assignment or problem to solve right away

Challenge our creativity

give us a challenging assignment or problem to solve right away

Provide opportunities for us to work in spirited team situations Give opportunities for individual achievement and recognition, too.

Provide opportunities for us to work in spirited team situations

Give opportunities for individual achievement and recognition, too.

Make the work environment fun and informal. Introduce us to others and encourage the development of workplace friendships.

Make the work environment fun and informal.

Introduce us to others and encourage the development of workplace friendships.

Allow us to experience a daily sense of tangible achievement Short-term projects and goals work best

Allow us to experience a daily sense of tangible achievement

Short-term projects and goals work best

Give us opportunities to reinvent ourselves within the organization Learn new skills Move cross-functionally Redesign roles Report to a new mentor Work different hours Working from a new location Source: Found at http://ourpublicservice.org/OPS/publications/viewcontentdetails.php?id=121.

Give us opportunities to reinvent ourselves within the organization

Learn new skills

Move cross-functionally

Redesign roles

Report to a new mentor

Work different hours

Working from a new location

Open dialogue on the first day about keeping us and your willingness to work with us to make it happen.

Open dialogue on the first day about keeping us and your willingness to work with us to make it happen.

Create an alumni network to stay in touch with us Use social virtual networks Bring back high performers Source: Found at http://ourpublicservice.org/OPS/publications/viewcontentdetails.php?id=121.

Create an alumni network to stay in touch with us

Use social virtual networks

Bring back high performers

Offer student loan repayment Or we’ll be paying them off for years (and jumping jobs to get more money anyway!)

Offer student loan repayment

Or we’ll be paying them off for years (and jumping jobs to get more money anyway!)

Thank You! Andrew Krzmarzick http://generationshift.blogspot.com [email_address] 202-821-6288

Thank You!