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A few years ago the phrase "war for talent" was all the rage in discussions of hiring trends. The thinking was that as aging boomers started to move out of the workforce, there would be a fight to capture the young people rushing in to take their places.
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Consultants gave advice about how to court younger workers who craved different things than their boomer predecessors, and authors and bloggers wrote volumes about demystifying this new breed of worker. (Here’s a post I wrote about this for the New York Times back in 2007.)
Then the economy fell apart and talk of firing replaced talk of hiring. But it's possible that all that talent war talk is coming back. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (31) | Blog
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A recent article from Psychology Today contend that Millennials (individuals born roughly from the early 1980s through the late 1990s, also known as Generation Y) are poised to take over the workplace.
The article declares that these newest entrants to the workforce were "raised by parents who often acted more like friends and mentors. So Gen Y comes to the negotiating table with unprecedented confidence about what kind of workplace they want.”
When I read articles like this, I’m of two minds. On on hand, I’m endlessly fascinated with the different generational characteristics that researchers have discovered between Generation X, Generation Y and Baby Boomers. On the other hand, descriptions about the characteristics of these generations often sound like they’ve come out of a fortune cookie or horoscope. Take this quote from that Psychology Today article: Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (44) | Blog
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Reading over the blog posts accumulated thus far, I am torn in a multitude of directions. My heart is overjoyed, seeing others who care and commit to advancing women's equality in the world; however, a point of discomfort, a gnawing of some kind will not disappear. Regretfully, that...
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New research finds that women go for guys who remind them of their fathers. This is an idea that's not new at all (hello, Oedipus complex, etc) but it's interesting to get the scientific "yeah, it's true!" stamp of approval. In the study, psychologists measured people's faces and compared them to their partners and their parents, and found men were more likely to go for women who had a bone structure similar to their mother's, while women would go for guys with bone structure like their dads. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (83) | Blog
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[Ed. Note: You know that moment when you say or do something to your children and suddenly you find yourself behaving or sounding shockingly like your mom or dad? First you cringe, then you laugh and finally you realize that your kids will probably have the same exact experiences someday when they... Read More »
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