This document provides information about different generations including Veterans, Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials. It discusses important events that defined each generation and characteristics that people from those generations might identify with. It also outlines differences in how each generation approaches careers, rewards, work-life balance, and job changing. The document concludes with tips for interns to perform and assess their internship, take something away from the experience, and ways to network effectively.

2. Understanding your co-workers
Interacting in a professional environment
What to expect during your internship
How to get the most out of your internship

5. 1st time
in US
History

9. • Important events included:
– The Great Depression
– WWII
– Disney releases it’s first animated feature (Snow
White)
– The Korean War
– Sputnik went into Orbit
You might be a veteran if…
• You have the ability to entertain yourself without
a TV, in fact you remember the days before TV
• Popular Technology: Radio

15. Aging with Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcN08Tg3PWw

17. • Important events included:
– Man walks on the Moon
– Civil Rights
– Woodstock
– Deaths of JFK and Martin Luther King
– Vietnam War begins
You might be a Boomer if you can complete these
sentences…
• When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964,
we all watched them on the ______show
• "Get your kicks, ________________”
• Popular Technology: Television

24. The Memory Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzSaoN2LdfU

26. • Important events:
– The Cold War (remember getting under your desk?)
– Challenger Shuttle Explodes on Takeoff
– Berlin Wall Dismantled
– Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
– U.S. Troops go to Persian Gulf for the 1st time
– AIDS Identified
You might be a Gen Xer if…
• Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you
actually learned the English language.
– I know what a Bill (sittin’ up on Capital Hill) is thanks to that
show!!
Popular Technology: Computers

33. The Anarchists of Gen X Grow Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBnFtQHBLDA

35. • Important Events:
– Death of Princess Diana
– Death of Mother Teresa
– Columbine
– 9/11
– World Center Attacks
– War begins in Iraq for a 2nd time
You might be a Millennial if…
• Blog, Myspace/Facebook, IM, text messaging, and
other social media are a regular part of your daily life
• Popular Technology: The internet, cell phones

44. Helicopter Parents Continue to Hover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYBn_DRmAU

47. Every generation that enters the workforce makes waves!

49. Veterans Boomers Gen Xers Millennials
Career Build a legacy Build a stellar Build a portable Build parallel
career career careers
Goals
Rewards Satisfaction of a job Money, title, Freedom is the Work that has
well done recognition, ultimate reward meaning for me
corner office
Work-Life Support me in Help me balance Give me balance Work isn’t
shifting the balance everyone else and now! Not when everything. Need
Balance
find meaning I’m 65 flexibility to
myself balance my other
activities
Job Carries a stigma Puts you behind Is necessary Is part of the daily
routine
Changing
Training I learned the hard Train ‘em too The more they Continuous
way, you can too! much and they’ll learn, the more learning is a way
leave they’ll stay of life
Source: When Generations Collide

57. Be a SUPER candidate

58. perform and assess.
• Immerse yourself – take initiative – do your
best work
• Evaluate midway and make improvements
• Meet regularly with your
supervisor for feedback
• Continue to focus on goals
• Maintain a positive attitude
and be professional.

59. take something away.
• Keep track of your accomplishments
– Start a portfolio
• Leave on a positive note
– Ask for reference letters at that time
• Create a new resume and add your
great internship experience
• Write a thank you note to those
who helped you
• Celebrate what you did!!!

62. According to a recent survey by the Department of
Labor, networking accounts for at least 69% of all
annual hires.
Networking is one of the BEST ways to find
a job or internship.

65. What are things that you could do in your
internship to be excellent?

68. You can’t win the
lottery, if you don’t
buy a ticket!

69. Jennifer Fisher
jenniferlfisher@live.com
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