Here's some excerpts from a piece on Generation Y Workers from June Issue of Fortune.
The baby-boomers' kids are marching into the workplace, and look out: This crop of twentysomethings really is different. Fortune's Nadira Hira presents a field guide to Generation Y.Things that make you go Hmmm.
Nearly every businessperson over 30 has done it: sat in his office after a staff meeting and - reflecting upon the 25-year-old colleague with two tattoos, a piercing, no watch and a shameless propensity for chatting up the boss - wondered, What is with that guy?! ....[Sounds like the suckers we're always talking about]
They're ambitious, they're demanding and they question everything, so if there isn't a good reason for that long commute or late night, don't expect them to do it. When it comes to loyalty, the companies they work for are last on their list - behind their families, their friends, their communities, their co-workers and, of course, themselves.....
Joshua Butler, audit associate, KPMG
With his broad networker's smile[skinnin' & grinnin'], stiff white collar, and polished onyx cuff links, Joshua Butler has the "accouterments" of an accountant. Even so, he looks a little out of place in a KPMG conference room. At 22, he's 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, with a body made for gladiator movies. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Butler chose accounting after graduating from Howard University because he wanted "transferable skills."
Is that a way of saying no matter how many clothes you buy, if you don't "look" a certain way you shouldn't be in corporate America?? Or am I tripping? Continue....
At KPMG he's getting them - and more: The firm has let him arrange his schedule to train for a bodybuilding competition, and he's on its tennis team[WTF:The company athlete???]. Even before that, KPMG got his attention when it agreed to move him to New York, his chosen city. "It made me say, 'You know what? This firm has shown a commitment to me. Let me in turn show some commitment to the firm.'" He pauses, a twinkle in his eye. "So this is a merger, if you will - Josh and KPMG."
Read the full article... the Attracting the twentysomething worker
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