Bookmarked for when I get home from work.
We jokingly have a policy here that we only hire people over 40 because they show up for work and don’t have an entitled attitude. We once hired someone who was first in their class at the local vocational school and she had all of her awards and certificates in a nice portfolio. She lasted three months. She felt it was beneath her to help out in the plant when we needed it and she had the shortest tenure. As we are in a smaller town, there are no liberals or if there are, they keep it well hidden.
Keeping in mind my experience in hiring folks born after 1980 are mostly folks with an engineering degree...
They have adapted to technologies changes quicker, and like most of us when that young, don't value experience enough. A couple decades of watching yourself and others make signficant mistakes teach a lot of "don't do that again..."
Not enough experience hiring the younger designers over engineers. I have hired some, but to few to generalize.
We hire heavy equipment operators and laborers at my company. No way to determine political leanings, many don’t even have any. I had one young man (wearing what I call ‘dookie pants’, tattoos, and an earring) ask this as his first question “What benefits does your company have?” I told him a paycheck every Friday.
The long-timers know this is a job that depends on the weather, so you need to be cautious with your money. Many of the younger ones don’t last through a hot summer, but there are just as many who do and go on to work here for years, off and on.
Working in oil, gas and petrochem, they tend to be an endangered species...
My daughter and her husband are millenials. She is conservative he more libertarian. BOTH are hard working great adults. They have a home and pay their bills on time. They are motivated and have a life plan.
There are lots of young adults out there like this. You only here about the self entitled ones.
They have good boundaries and do not let their work brow beat them. They do an honest day’s work. They have common sense ( they stayed home and did not go to work on the day of the big storm because where they live is easily snowed in). They were not out there on icy roads trying to drive when driving was impossible.
I am proud of them.
I would say that millennial, more than previous generations, divide into two groups; really entitled and hard working. I think previous generations had a more “normal” distribution of just one hump centered around reasonably competent.
I had 28 mostly young professionals a while back. It was an extremely diverse bunch. The kids who had gone to high school in foreign countries were infinitely better at speaking and writing English than the Americans. Blacks from Africa had zero sense of entitlement whereas blacks from the US felt they should be decorative rather than contributors. (One of them sued us for discrimination, accusing a Russian of dissing him because he referred to his job as monkey’s work. At the hearing (Some kind of EOE race thing) the Russian produced literature from either Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy making reference in a non-racial way to monkey’s work. We were the first ever company this particular black judge let off the hook. It wasn’t even a comment made to or intended for that guy. He just overheard it when the Russian, an inventor, was asked to help the black guy out. “What for you make me do this monkey’s work?”)
1. What is your experience with hiring and employing Millennials vs. previous generations?
I have not had any serious problems with Millennials, beyond the problems I had with younger employees from previous generations. They tend to be overconfident, have too little experience, and learn from their own mistakes the way that their parents did. I’m okay with them overall.
2. What is your experience with hiring and employing liberals vs. conservatives?
As for liberals, I have found that of the twenty or so hires who turned out to be serious problems, all were liberals. My thieves (who steals from a polling firm???) were all liberals. Both liars who fudged their data (MAJOR embarrassment!) were liberals. Everyone I ever fired during normal operations was a liberal, no exceptions. When I finally shut down the company, I cut the remaining liberals off (anyone who supported Obama had their job eliminated) and set the conservatives up in business for themselves or searched for jobs for them if they didn’t want to be self-employed. I would never again knowingly hire a liberal - they have the shady morals and the minimal work ethic of Barack Obama.
If I was hiring, the first thing I’d do is look up any candidates on the public court records website to see if they are criminals.
Here in WI, we have:
http://wcca.wicourts.gov/simpleCaseSearch.xsl