1. Generation Y: Background
Achieving Adulthood: Times Past
Financial independence
Marriage commitment
Permanent Housing
Children
Emerging Adult Issues: Now
Search for self-identity
Self-absorbed
Live with parents
Optimistic job available; grad school
Generation Y: Background

2. Job Surfing:
I would be willing to endure frequent job changes in order to find a job that fits my interests and abilities. I believe I still have a few years to try out different jobs before I settle down into a career.
Career/Life Vision:
I don’t have any specific goals for this year. I can’t imagine what my life will be like 10 years from now.
Marriage:
Marriage is not a high priority for me at this point.
Goal Instability:
It’s hard to find a reason for working. I don’t seem to get going on anything important. I wonder where my life is headed.
Superiority:
I deserve favors from others. Being admired by others helps me feel fantastic. I have more natural talents than most.
Parents: Being able to live at home

3. The Transition 1950 to 1989 No experience necessary
Tenure in 1st position: 4 to 5 years
Companies did most of the training
65% of college hires with Fortune 500
Legacy system for recruiting and accountability

4. The Transition Since Early 1990s
Experienced required
Tenure in first position 12 to 24 months
Most organizations provide little or no training
Skills & expectations have soared (employers)
35% to 40% of college grads hired by Fortune 500
Still rely on legacy practices and accountability measures

5. Gartner: 10 Changes During the Next 10 Years
1. De-routinization of Work
2. Work Swarms 3. Weak Links 4. Working With the Collective 5. Work Sketch-Ups 6. Spontaneous Work 7. Simulation and Experimentation 8. Pattern Sensitivity 9. Hyperconnected My Place

6. Today’s workplace:
Predictable, routine tasks are being either automated or outsourced, or soon will be.
Knowledge workers are increasingly taking more responsibility for their work as well as personal growth.
Hierarchy is being replaced by wirearchy.
Managers are being replaced by leaders, coaches, and facilitators, or will be.
The kinds of work being done are those that defy being codified into step-lists or guidelines.
The problems are complex—often chaotic—and resist solving using best practices of yore.
Ambiguity, complexity and chaos are replacing the predictable, known, and simple.
The competitive edge is the ability to problem solve quickly and innovatively.
The day of individual stars are past; it is time for collaborative team work.
Routine expertise, based on set skills and crystallized intelligence, is being superseded by a need for more adaptive expertise and fluid intelligence. 

7. Talent on Demand
Professional skills and competencies are critical All academic majors are in play IF? Connect their academics to the real world Able to tell their story The starting job no longer resides in the workplace. Having pre-professional experience is a must

8. Professional Competencies: Critical in Hiring & Fast Growth in Importance for all Majors
Build and sustain professional relationships
Analyze, evaluate and interpret data
Engage in continuous learning
Communicate through persuasion and justification
Plan and manage a project
Create new knowledge
Seek global understanding
Mentor and develop others
Build a team
Initiative: The Holy Grail

9. What College Experiences Count?
Study Abroad
Supervised civic engagement
Leadership in a non-professional organization
Scholarly research with faculty
International Internship
Faculty supervised Consulting project with company
Leadership in a professional organization
Internships

10. The Gatekeeper
Professional practice: must have the type of practice that is expected in the setting one expects to go
Minimum: 6 months continuous
High stakes event
Dealing with unpaid issue as well as credit

11. The Bottom Line: Two Choices
The CHOICES
Technically savvy liberal arts graduates
Liberally educated technical graduates
48% of employers seek a balance between liberal and technical preparation

12. Thinking Ahead Future of the careers depends on being
Committed to promoting the development of comprehensive professional competencies, attitudes, and behaviors
Committed to encouraging self-directed, active learning as preparation for becoming life long learners
Committed to enhancing integration of liberal learning, disciplinary, interdisciplinary & co-curricular concepts into a professional foundation
Committed to expanding ability to deal with unexpected, emerging issues