Get ready for Gen Z, employers. First hint: They are not millennials

Baltimore Sun via Star Tribune ^ | 5/19/19 | LORRAINE MIRABELLA

[Libloather]

“With Gen Z … we have to show them rather than just talking about it,” said Michelle Jordan, an assistant vice president of HR development and college recruiting.

Move over, millennials. The next generation is just starting to make its way into the workforce, and employers are taking note.

The first wave of Generation Z, those born after 1996 and more than 60 million strong, will start moving from college to career this year. These newest workers come from the first post-Sept. 11 generation, one that’s grown up with social media and smartphones, watched their parents go through the housing bust and a deep recession, and come of age amid political polarization and soaring college debt. It’s little wonder they are pegged as anxiety-ridden, but experts say they are also independent, pragmatic and super-connected.

[Dapper 26]

I have to agree.

[dfwgator]

Second thing : You’re going to pee in a cup before you even get a job selling shoes

[coaster123]

Whatever plans they have will be dashed in post Trump America. Deprivation and horror are coming their way, hard.

[proust]

I’ve talked to dozens of Gen Z and they are baffled by 9/11. In their world, being molested by the TSA is normal because that’s the way it’s always been.

[dfwgator]

They also don’t know what living during The Cold War was like.

[plain talk]

I have always found this grouping of people into millenials, Gen X, Y, Z somewhat arbitrary. I was curious about birth rate stats and found this chart. Interesting for a number of reasons. I imagine the muslims and illegals will bump up the stats in the future.

[a fool in paradise]

>>The first wave of Generation Z, those born after 1996

4 years of those are Millenials (born before 2000 and turned 18 after year 2000).

And much of the “Millenials” are actually Generation Y aka Generation whine.

Millenial is a bullstalin statistic. Not based on any generation, it is based on an epoch of history.

[coaster123]

“People who buy into this nonsense are just stupid.“ “history”

The mass administration of psychotropic drugs to undeveloped minds is not historical.

This isn’t like before.

Stupid, huh?

[piytar]

Millennial snowflakes are idiots. I know - my nephews are millennial idiots.

Also have several friends with Gen Z kids. Frankly, I am impressed with them. They are very aware the schools are trying to indoctrinate them and refuse, although they will “play the game” for now. Work hard. Incredibly smart.

[Army Air Corps]

Spot on!
Good parenting makes for good kids.

[hinckley buzzard]

”...experts say...”

Stopped reading right there.

[AndyJackson]

“You don’t hear, ‘Facebook will change the way we connect,’ “ Casey said. “Now it’s, ‘What’s Big Brother doing to me?’ “

Well, there's hope. First finish what the British started in 1812.

[StolarStorm]

The Gen Z’s I know are awesome. They despise political correctness and don’t trust the media (or the government.) There is hope.

[AndyJackson]

Or the 1950s and 1970s occupying deans offices and obnoxious stupid chants - Hey Hey LBJ and so forth.

[El Cid]

It's a demographic the GOP needs to capture.

The bulk that I’ve seen, seem to be in love with Socialism. My theory is that the ones that have immigrated here tend to be the cream of the crop, and perhaps there is some ‘guilt’ factor about doing well - and remembering the fact that India has a real problem in treating people poorly. And since Socialism is taught as some universal salve to address all social ills, they support it whole heartedly in this Country.
So yes, in many ways they are model citizens, but they are going to vote for a system that only works in theory - but brings grief and misery when it is attempted to be implemented in real life.
Just a comment. I don’t know how to address it. A real educational system would help. Unfortunately our current Educational systems exult the State, and denigrate the principles of the Founding Fathers.

[minnesota_bound]

Gen Z will be henceforth known as Generation Zero

[Fiji Hill]

I noticed that one of those Zoomers is wearing a Beatles t-shirt. Chronologically, the Beatles are as far removed from Generation Z as the Peerless Quartet was from my teenage years, when the Beatles were popular. Yet during my teenage years, I never saw any of my colleagues in a Peerless Quartet, American Quartet, , Billy Murray or Ben Selvin t-shirt.

[LeoTDB69]

LOL. In that pic he so looks like a space alien.

[Tench_Coxe]

Just some thoughts, some based on generalities:
1. Gen Z may have more in common with Gen X, which probably isn't surprising given the birth era (Silent Generation-Gen X-Gen Z axis). There are some similarities on this axis.
2. Identity politics is going to fall on deaf ears with the Gen Z bunch. And as each generation "rebels", they're going to reject the horsecrap they've been force-fed
3. They dont have the grandiose sense of entitlement of the Millennials, and may overtake them in terms of advancement due to acquiring competency as opposed to pretending competency.
4. I think the entrenched powers that be (in the US) sense this movement, and its part of the reason for open borders-drown out those who have "caught on" by importing ignorant (not using this word as a perjorative) masses who maintain a culture of dependency.

2 through 4 can be summed up by Gen Z is going to be less impressed by posers and more impressed by doers. The future may not be bad.

[BradyLS]

American Gothic: 2019