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Help Millennials Get Jobs: Offer Online Learning & Career Resources

WBT Systems

Millennials get their share of depressing headlines these days—like this one from NBC News : “Majority of millennials are in debt, hitting pause on major life events.”. A stunning sad fact: only 22 percent of millennials are debt-free. The state of millennial membership. The state of millennial membership.

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How to Recruit and Retain Millennial Employees (Hint: Start by Building Community)

Higher Logic

Some companies naturally attract millennials. If you can’t afford (or don’t want) distracting foosball tables, how do you appeal to young professionals? Lean on research, including studies and surveys, that flat-out asks millennials what they want. You don’t have to tell millennials how collaborative your organization is.

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Focus on Millennial Learners to Benefit Members of All Ages

WBT Systems

There are countless articles describing how we need to change the way we deliver learning to attract and engage millennial learners, but many of these articles seem to forget that organizations must deliver learning to learners across multiple generational groups. Do millennial learners prefer different types of training?

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The Key to Attracting Millennials

Association Success

I am not an expert on Millennials, but I have three daughters aged 22, 20 and 18 so I am definitely gaining some basic understanding of how they think. I have also studied, in a previous life as a designer, how technology changes the way that the generation react to the world around them. How did she do that?

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Why (and How) to Design Association Education for Young Professionals

WBT Systems

Millennials will make up nearly half the U.S. Generational definitions vary but most characterize millennials (or Generation Y) as 21 to 35 year olds. Generation Z, usually described as those who are 21 and under, is already a bigger group than the millennials or the boomers. Millennials in the workplace. hours per week.

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Technology in the Workplace: Merging Boomers and Millennials

Achurch

Millennials were the first wave of technologists, but many people from Gen Z are also entering the workforce. How then do organizations harness the intuitive understanding of younger generations and the strong-work ethic and resourceful old generations to make a technology-based strategy the most effective?

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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

According to the 2014 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement survey of the Society for Human Resource Management, 40 percent of employees rated job-specific training as “very important” to their satisfaction, and 36 percent rated professional development the same way. The numbers are even more drastic with young professionals.

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