A profile of yesterday’s versus tomorrow’s employee by Yourway Counseling

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X and Y generations:

• Results-oriented

• Self-critical

• Find it harder to work under pressure and stress

• Relatively ambitious

• Friendly and sociable but can be critical of others

• Cautious, go by the rules, with a need to control, prone to micro-management

• Relatively curious and creative

• Willing to learn

X and Y’s values and motivations:

• Power

• Security

• Tradition

• Aesthetics

Millennials are:

• Assertive

• Expressive

• Enterprising

• Logical

Millennials are most interested in:

• Interpretative arts

• Adventure

• Dominating management

• Inter-personal trust

• Engineering

• Finances

• Social sciences

Millennials are least interested in:

• Planning

• Nature-agriculture

• Teaching

• Social services

• Elementary teaching

• Office work

Source: Yourway Counseling

  • Respondents: Adults aged 30-53 (sample group from the X,Y generation born between the ‘60s and ‘80s)
  • Teenagers (sample group from the Millennial generation aged 14-19)

 

 

 

 

• Source: Yourway Counseling

Respondents: Adults aged 30-53 (sample group from the X,Y generation born between the ‘60s and ‘80s)

• Teenagers (sample group from the Millennial generation aged 14-19)

 

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