Andrea Knies Assistant Director, Career Services Andrea.knies@hotmail.com As a pioneering Millennial in the workplace, I often find myself defending our generation. We are sometimes labeled as entitled and lazy with a short attention span. It is important to look at where these ideas stem from and then take advantage of this knowledge to maximize the talents of our generation. The Entitled Generation This idea is based on the ‘participation award’ idea. It is true that my generation was put on a team (or 2 or 3) at a young age. The stereotype comes from the idea that we didn’t have to compete to win, everyone got a trophy for participating. With this mindset it is no wonder other generations assume we expect recognition for everything. The truth is we do….
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In earlier generations of workers, an unspoken, sink-or-swim approach to on-the-job training was often good enough to bring new employees up to speed. Yet that approach might be less effective with those from the Millennial or Generation Y demographic, a group raised with different expectations and work styles. Millennials, possibly more than any other generation, require clear direction, guidance and goals from their managers. This is because many Millennials have grown up in schools that use rubrics to evaluate the quality of an assignment. According to the National Education Association (NEA) web site, rubrics are “scoring tools that divide an assignment into its component parts and objectives, and provide a description of what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable levels of performance for each part.” In many cases rubrics are provided to….
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