Gen Y can find almost anything on Google. Try me! The only problem is our generation (sometimes) struggles with taking what they find online and applying it to the offline world. Millennials, haven’t you added someone as a friend on Facebook and then walked by them and pretend you have no idea who they are? [...]
Read moreInspired by the GenYNetworking.com posts regarding job searching advice, I want to take this week to offer both Gen Y and employer perspectives about making the most successful connections by networking both online and offline. Networking is one of the most valuable — and most difficult to master — characteristics of the job search. A colleague [...]
Read moreThe following was originally posted on Careerealism.com on August 17, 2009. You and I have both heard the typical line from career counselors, “use power verbs in your resume.” Right? They’ve even given us lists and lists of verbs to begin sentences like: Managed team of 10 engineers in highly competitive RFP process Resolved difficult [...]
Read moreWhen researching for this blog, I typically try to look at websites that offer advice for Generation Y job candidates outside of my field, so I was reading How to Get Your First Tech Job – It’s Not What You Think. The article, an answer to a question from a reader, had lots of great [...]
Read moreGina’s GenYNetworking.com post last week about the advice that Gen Y doesn’t want to hear about job searching seemed to strike a cord with a few readers. In a struggling economy, many Gen Y’ers are looking for help in every direction. The common theme that resonated in the post and among comments was that they wanted [...]
Read moreHappy reading this weekend. Hope you enjoy my recommended readings from this week on Millennials, the job search, employers and more. Please share your favorite articles in the comments below. Five tips for asking better questions The Job Search According to Facebook and Twitter Generation Y: Educated, underemployed and in debt The Rise of Networked Individuals: [...]
Read moreIn my experience as a nonprofit fundraiser, I know that it is infinitely easier and more fruitful to cultvate existing donors than to search for new development. In her article this week for Forbes Woman and The Glass Hammer, Selena Rezvani says that the same principle is true for your Gen Y female employees. Rezvani [...]
Read moreHey other generations – I so appreciate your advice, but there are a few things you tell my peers and me that I am just sick of hearing. Make your online profiles appropriate. As a senior in college, I sought job search advice from a communications professor who I thought understood social media. Her advice [...]
Read moreReliance on social media as an information source can be a double-edged sword. While I think many of us agree that we should be careful where we go for trusted news sources, many consumers from all generations trust some unreliable social media sites. BP’s most recent public relations battle shows the dangerous results of what [...]
Read moreGeneration Y job candidates talk about the skills and personal attributes we have a lot. We write our skills on our résumé and talk about our attributes to new connections we make when networking. We share how we have applied our skills in interviews. From being financially savvy to paying attention to detail, don’t just [...]
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