Top 10 Generation Y Trends for 2012. Is the recession a reset button or a stop-consuming-now moment for Generation Y?
What is the influence of Andy Warhol’s famous quote “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” in 2012? Why is baking cake important for millennials? Why are we all becoming Technoholics in the near future? In this Top 10 Generation Y Trends for 2012 article, I discuss 10 trends for 2012, concerning generarion Y. Find them below: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Reaching Out to Generation Y and Managing Millennials. The biggest complaints I hear from Vistage CEO and Key groups about the Millennial Generation are generally variations on two themes, and are always delivered in an exasperated tone: “How do I get through to them?”
And “How can I get them to understand what I need or what I want them to do?” Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, have always been motivated by having a stellar career — essentially, by successfully accumulating material and financial wealth. By any measure, they have succeeded in spades; Boomers are the wealthiest generation in history. And with a nod to the old Smith Barney ad, they got there earnestly — they earned it. Boomers created their wealth by bringing a new construct into the workforce: the 70 to 80 hour work week. Most of the Vistage CEOs I work with fall into this category: successful Boomers who have worked 70 to 80 hours per week most of their careers in order to achieve their current financial and material place in the world.
What Gen Yers don’t know about themselves. Now that I'm not the CEO of Brazen Careerist, I don't have to be the national cheerleader for Generation Y.
I fantasized about this moment for years: the moment when I'd write the post titled, 10 Things I Hate about Generation Y. But it's hard to hate people you hang out with all the time, and the truth is, I've spent the last ten years being a Gen Xer surrounded by Gen Yers. The pinnacle, I thought, was me spending my days fighting with Ryan Healy about work.
But in fact, it turns out the pinnacle of my education on Gen Y is my arguments with Melissa about her peers that end in snippy impasse. Sometimes, I think Gen Y is lame and she won't admit to it. But, I find, as I think about all the things I hate about Gen Y, that it's hard to hate something you know so much about. 1. But what I've noticed lately is that this nature results in Gen Y having a difficult time making decisions. 2. The result of this way of seeing the world is that Gen Y is very, very non-competitive. Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. - Pew Social & Demographic Trends. Executive Summary Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.
They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They’re less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history. Their entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession, but they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation. (See chapter 4 in the full report) They embrace multiple modes of self-expression.
Nearly one-in-four have a piercing in some place other than an earlobe — about six times the share of older adults who’ve done this. Assets/pdf/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf. Why Gen Y Facebook users keep career info out. By Vickie Elmer, contributor FORTUNE -- If you didn't think your job said all that much about who you are or who you want to be, would you put it on your Facebook profile?
As many members of Generation Y struggle to develop their professional careers, most do not feel ready to share their current employer's name with their legions of Facebook friends. Two-thirds of those ages 18 to 29 do not list their employer's name on their Facebook profiles, and those who do share that information are more likely to work for the U.S.
Army than AT&T (T) or Apple (AAPL), according to a recent study of Facebook profiles by Millennial Branding and Identified.com. By comparison, 20% of the 4 million profiles examined in the study did not include a school. "A lot of them cannot even get a professional type job…. Servers, CEOs, and lifeguards If Facebook is all about expressing crafting your social identity online, where you are employed just might not rate for all younger workers. No love for the Fortune 500? This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business.