It would be nice to know how that compares to previous generations. Boomers had a different set of complaints about us Gen Xers having "a different approach to work, with unique preferences and expectations."
There's also a lot of missing details. Take, "27% of Gen Zers have attended a job interview with a parent". That links to Fortune which links to a survey done by ResumeTemplates.com . They survey people ages ages 18 to 27 who looked for a job within the past year.
How was the survey carried out? What population did that reach? If it was 90% 18 year olds looking for their first job, then that's not really a generational thing.
If the numbers haven't changed since, say, 2000, then it's not a Gen Z thing.
If in 1989 they had contacted me, I would have been in the same category.
Why? I had a summer job as a lifeguard, because my Mom knew people at a summer camp who were looking for a lifeguard. She drove me to the interview, and was there for it, because she and the camp directors were friends.
And as for 'One in three Zoomers admit they don’t know how to effectively communicate with hiring managers.' - I absolutely did not know how to do that when I was ages 18-27. And I struggled with making eye contact. I would look at noses instead.
Why should we be surprised that Gen Z is any different, if Gen X was the same?
And for "21% of employers reported that some Zoomers refused to turn on their camera during virtual interviews' .. wow, that's a bias. If 0.1% of people refused to turn on their camera, and the hiring managers interview 500 people, then quite a few of the 800 surveyed people would have had a couple of Zoomers who refused to turn on their camera.
A camera which, of course, may reveal a lot more about the person's living situation than is appropriate for an interview.
> Boomers had a different set of complaints about us Gen Xers having "a different approach to work, with unique preferences and expectations."
What Boomers advocated for was outright employer abuse, and they sold subservience as a survival strategy. Sometimes they sound like they expect the cycle of abuse to continue, specially as they now hold the reigns. Their life of subservience and shit-taking got them here, they feel they earned their dues, and they want to have their day fishing it out instead of taking it.
The numbers may be a little exaggerated but the overall direction is definitely true. Basically Gen Z are a lot more introvert ( may be not even a correct term to use any more ) than previous gen. And Ghosting is definitely a lot more common. Demand / expectation is also a lot higher, comparatively speaking.
I think overall the trend is pretty much the same for at least 40 - 50 years. It is just every generation is a little worst than previous one.
I recently was questioning on why GenZ doesn’t have a proper counterculture (Hippies, Punks, Grunge etc.) and the answers I found is mostly that it happens in fragmented ways online now. But there is no physical place for GenZ to meet up and gel into a coherent offline counterculture.
> It is just every generation is a little worst than previous one.
Is it, though?
I mean, the blog post reads like a generic smear campaign targeting a whole generation. The telltale sign is that it cherry-picks some click bait sentences, but fails to draw any baseline and comparison.
Let's take a look at the survey from another perspective. From the same blog post, it seems they are being subjected to an interview process that is appallingly poor and outright abusive, and GenZs opt to just not entertain those and simply ditch them altogether.
If other generations aren't doing that, they seem to not have any self respect whereas GenZ does.
The cherry on top: the conclusions mentions "rising salary expectations" as a kind of side note as a requirement to cater GenZs? So the post starts to drag the whole generation through the mud, complaining that the ditch the interview process which is admittedly too stressful to entertain, but out of nowhere the solution is... Offer them a higher salary to convince them to tolerate the process?
There's a lot to unpack there, and it's not eye contact and turning on cameras. It's something completely different, that says more about recruiters and their practices than whoever they are hiring.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 24.7 ms ] threadThere's also a lot of missing details. Take, "27% of Gen Zers have attended a job interview with a parent". That links to Fortune which links to a survey done by ResumeTemplates.com . They survey people ages ages 18 to 27 who looked for a job within the past year.
How was the survey carried out? What population did that reach? If it was 90% 18 year olds looking for their first job, then that's not really a generational thing.
If the numbers haven't changed since, say, 2000, then it's not a Gen Z thing.
If in 1989 they had contacted me, I would have been in the same category.
Why? I had a summer job as a lifeguard, because my Mom knew people at a summer camp who were looking for a lifeguard. She drove me to the interview, and was there for it, because she and the camp directors were friends.
And as for 'One in three Zoomers admit they don’t know how to effectively communicate with hiring managers.' - I absolutely did not know how to do that when I was ages 18-27. And I struggled with making eye contact. I would look at noses instead.
Why should we be surprised that Gen Z is any different, if Gen X was the same?
And for "21% of employers reported that some Zoomers refused to turn on their camera during virtual interviews' .. wow, that's a bias. If 0.1% of people refused to turn on their camera, and the hiring managers interview 500 people, then quite a few of the 800 surveyed people would have had a couple of Zoomers who refused to turn on their camera.
A camera which, of course, may reveal a lot more about the person's living situation than is appropriate for an interview.
What Boomers advocated for was outright employer abuse, and they sold subservience as a survival strategy. Sometimes they sound like they expect the cycle of abuse to continue, specially as they now hold the reigns. Their life of subservience and shit-taking got them here, they feel they earned their dues, and they want to have their day fishing it out instead of taking it.
I think overall the trend is pretty much the same for at least 40 - 50 years. It is just every generation is a little worst than previous one.
Is it, though?
I mean, the blog post reads like a generic smear campaign targeting a whole generation. The telltale sign is that it cherry-picks some click bait sentences, but fails to draw any baseline and comparison.
Let's take a look at the survey from another perspective. From the same blog post, it seems they are being subjected to an interview process that is appallingly poor and outright abusive, and GenZs opt to just not entertain those and simply ditch them altogether.
If other generations aren't doing that, they seem to not have any self respect whereas GenZ does.
The cherry on top: the conclusions mentions "rising salary expectations" as a kind of side note as a requirement to cater GenZs? So the post starts to drag the whole generation through the mud, complaining that the ditch the interview process which is admittedly too stressful to entertain, but out of nowhere the solution is... Offer them a higher salary to convince them to tolerate the process?
There's a lot to unpack there, and it's not eye contact and turning on cameras. It's something completely different, that says more about recruiters and their practices than whoever they are hiring.