Sentences with phrase «members of my generation»

Laurence has also previously written of the need for companies to attract members of Generation Y (those born after 1982).

It looks like members of Generation Y have started to believe the «hopeless millennials» stereotype, according to a report from the Conference Board of Canada examining the workplace preferences and expectations of Generations X and Y. Attracting and Retaining the 2020 Workforce suggests that the greener cohort has a lower desired job ceiling than their slightly - older colleagues:

Although the members of Generation X polled feel they are closer to their desired job level than millennials, the former are also more likely to believe they will be unable to attain their career goal:

Members of Generations X and Y believe promotions should be tied to an employee's skills and job performance at an almost - equal rate.

Members of this generation are also called «digital natives,» which gives you a partial clue as to why the 20 - something set is seen as the prime driver of tech innovation.

For his part, Trent Porter, CFP and owner of Priority Financial Partners, finds that members of both generations have similarities: interest in socially responsible investing and membership in what he calls the research culture.

Members of this generation can rent couture dresses for proms and play video games against opponents on different continents.

Smith started Vice as a print magazine with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago; with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.

Members of each generation might not have a problem with working long hours, but it's how they complete that work that can cause frustrations.

I'm a card - carrying member of Generation X, but some of my best work colleagues are Millennials.

I'm extremely optimistic about millennials — members of a generation that will make up 75 percent of the workforce by 2025.

While members of Generation X value control and compensation, «millennials are driven by how well their team works together, how supported and appreciated they feel, and how much possibility they have,» PwC's Donovan says.

A 2015 Nielsen global online study showed that almost three out of four members of generation Y were willing to pay more for a product or item that was produced by a brand that was dedicated to sustainability.

Like many members of her generation, Davis has the requisite side hustles, in her case buying furniture on Craig's List, fixing it up and reselling it.

They are the members of Generation Flux.

About 46 percent of U.S. consumers have made a mobile payment, according to a study by The Pew Charitable Trusts released this week, with most of those users being millennials or members of Generation X.

A big contributor to this low amount could be the Great Recession, which hit Gen X the hardest, costing members of this generation 45 percent of their net wealth on average, according to The Fiscal Times.

Younger members of the generation are entering the workforce for the first time, and the oldest millennials are now in their upper 30s — an age where children and mortgages are common.

The church attendance drop does appear to be genuine, but small, when you compare rates at same age, but the prayer difference seems to be just an age issue: «Although Millennials report praying less often than their elders do today, the GSS shows that Millennials are in sync with Generation X and Baby Boomers when members of those generations were younger.»

Indeed, Millennials are significantly more unaffiliated than members of Generation X were at a comparable point in their life cycle (20 % in the late 1990s) and twice as unaffiliated as Baby Boomers were as young adults (13 % in the late 1970s).

I am also a member of that generation he speaks of.

Members of this generation felt that if they could succeed in this effort, they would have fulfilled much of their vocation.

These two cataclysmic conflagrations of our century, which broke the back of the liberal Protestant faith in progress, do not appear to trouble the adherents of Divine Principle, by and large members of a generation conveniently undistressed by stark memories of those «triumphs» for the heavenly side.

If rejecting the narrow minded approach of organized religion is a hallmark of our generation — then I am proud to be a member of generation «me.»

For six years he — and members of his generation — had had to get used to muted lighting, and sometimes to no lighting.

Here we are urged to make a simple accommodation to the demands of what certainly we may call the unthinking members of our generation; we have an eager willingness to accept without question what appears to be their desire for an authoritative totalitarian system which has no respect for truth; we have, in fact, a shocking submission to the worst aspects of the modern mind.

If you're a member of my generation, you grew up watching animated cartoons created in the 50's and 60's, and you're either a Disney fan or a Warner Bros. fan.

Consumers, especially Boomers and increasingly members of Generation X, are seeking food and beverage products that feature functional benefits.

You already have a lot on your mind, what with raising a member of the generation due to inherit the world.

Join our group and tell us about your family - the challenges you face and the tips you can offer to other members of Generation Sandwich!

As the only sewing member of my generation, I get lots of random fabric scraps that are awesome for projects like this.

To a member of my generation that is unthinkable, and that is the way it should be.

The new Parliament, as well as the new cabinet, will be filled with members of Generation Jones (the new media - popular generation between the Boomers and Gen X).

As Kevin pledged in announcing his candidacy, «We need to bring back the generation we're losing — and as a member of that generation, I'm determined to lead the charge for change.»

During the heated frontbench exchanges, Mrs May also said the Government was «not ignoring the problems that some members of this generation are facing» after she claimed Mr Corbyn's questions suggested Labour were «ignoring some of the facts».

«Obasanjo, truly, has failed this country many times over but not all members of his generation failed this country.

A member of the generation whose education was truncated by the Cultural Revolution, he spent his teens doing forced labor in the countryside instead of attending school; he learned by himself from whatever books came his way.

At 41, Joshua Pearce, professor of materials science and engineering at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, is a member of Generation X.

For instance, when it comes to victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those who did not die of acute radiation syndrome or the widespread lack of medical care after the attacks lived longer than other members of their generation because they received government - sponsored medical attention for the rest of their lives, Chumak says.

For example, Shih said, do members of Generation X behave differently on social media than Millennials do?

An older generation of stars is called Population II, and an earlier generation of Population III may have existed, although no members of this generation are known yet.

So, if you are a member of this generation, as I am, then be proud of it!

If were ever an angst ridden member of Generation X in the 90's then you probably owned a copy of the soundtrack to Reality Bites.

Personally, as a member of the generation, I believe there are many benefits to having Millennials as a part of a workforce if an employer knows how to properly take advantage of our unique talents.

Boudin was one of the most famous members of her generation, but her name does not appear in any of the most widely used history textbooks.

In 1988, Princeton student Wendy Kopp wrote a thesis arguing for a national teacher corps, modeled on the Peace Corps — the archetype of liberal volunteerism — that «would mobilize some of the most passionate, dedicated members of my generation to change the fact that where a child is born in the United States largely determines his or her chances in life.»

Or their employers», for that matter, who are more likely to be Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) or members of the Generation X (born between 1965 and 1979) than Millennials themselves.

The majority of today's preservice teachers who are currently enrolled in colleges of education are members of Generation «Y.» As we prepare future Generation «Y» teachers to meaningfully integrate technology into the curriculum, we need to...

The majority of today's preservice teachers who are currently enrolled in colleges of education are members of Generation «Y.» As we prepare future Generation «Y» teachers to meaningfully integrate technology into the curriculum, we need to determine which generational characteristics we should accommodate and which characteristics might not serve them well as future teachers.

A millennial myself, I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow as I, and other members of my generation, spurn products that claim to know what we need or want.