Breaking Barriers, Building a Hire Ground – Episode 159: Bridging the Gap between Baby Boomers and Millennials with Amanda Hammett

Amanda Hammett is the CEO of Core Elevation, a company dedicated to helping high-performance leaders achieve even greater results and working with Inc. 5,000 corporations to strategize attracting, retaining, and engaging top-level talent. She is also the host of the Next Generation Rockstars Podcast (aka Millennial Rockstars), where she proves her nickname as the ‘Millennial Translator’ by interviewing millennial business prodigies on the secrets of their success and the motivations that focus them. Amanda currently serves on the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce board while also serving for the past ten years as Corporate Board President of the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Georgia (HOBY). With a BA in History & Political Science from Agnes Scott College, she is a consultant and trainer who has delivered over 800 keynote speeches to the millennials corporate America needs to connect with.

In today’s episode, Amanda joins us to discuss recruiting millennials and Generation Z and what problems she has observed with modern recruitment techniques for this demographic. She reveals her Millennial Translator moniker’s origin and why businesses began to queue up for her help in connecting them with their younger workforce. Amanda takes a psychological look at the millennial employee and why they rebel against the Boomer Generation’s work-life values before them. She also warns the companies who are quick to make statements of intent; be that for social change, better employment practice, or other morally guided declarations. She explains that millennials do their homework on their possible future employees and empty promises can come back to haunt a brand in the most damaging of ways.

“What makes millennials different is their size. They are the biggest generation to come through since boomers and (are) even larger than boomers AND their willingness to speak up – their willingness to say ‘This isn’t for me.'” – Amanda Hammett

 

This week on Breaking Barriers:

• Why you need to lose the negative preconceptions about millennials
• How millennials have a different work-life ambition to the Boomer Generation before them
• Why companies struggle to retain millennial talent
• How Boomer employers don’t account for the speed of change in technology and culture and the communication changes that are needed to accompany this
• The importance of deadlines and enforcing accountability with your millennial employee
• Why taking the time to explain your businesses processes will save you in millennial productivity
• How millennials will hold your company to account for your business practice promises`

Connect with Amanda Hammett:

• Next Generation Rockstars Podcast
• Core Elevation’s Website
• Core Elevation on LinkedIn
• Amanda Hammett’s Website
• Amanda Hammett on LinkedIn

Connect with Hire Ground:

• Hire Ground’s Website
• Hire Ground on LinkedIn
• Hire Ground on Facebook
• Hire Ground on Twitter