Gen Z: From University to Workforce

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Our guest, Rachel Hanson, is a collaborative educator and
multimedia content creator with a strong foundation in higher education and a
passion for student-centered teaching.  She is currently in middle
management at a public university, and part of her responsibility is hiring and
managing young workers (often times students) at the college.



Rachel points out how economic and cultural factors (e.g.
changing gender roles and expectations) create big challenges for everyone in
today’s workforce. One of the things Rachel has noticed from her own experience
hiring and managing young people entering the workforce today is that on
average, they are quicker than previous generations at identifying when their
needs are not being met and speaking out or even making a shift (to a new
organization) if they feel the need.  She notes that it is easy to mistake
this for a lack of loyalty to the organization, but she sees it as healthy,
self-compassionate behavior, especially if management is not responding to
issues when they are communicated to them. 



Rachel likes to view her workers in the context of what’s
been going on in the world as they grew up.  And while there has been a
lot of turmoil while Gen Z grew up, in other ways, the workplace today has
advantages that didn’t exist for earlier generations.  She emphasizes,
managers shouldn’t ever try and make their young employees feel guilty because
some things have gotten easier.  Among other things, Rachel also points
out that while younger workers come in with native digital skills, managers
shouldn’t assume that they have the same analog skills as older generations.



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