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Guest Post: Set Goals to Start your Career Right | @work: a career blog — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:54:57 +0000

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whenitallmadesense.com | Inspiring stories for a brave new world — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:59:42 +0000

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By: jrandom421

jrandom421 — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:55:00 +0000

And not the first generation to get its youthful optimism crushed by the weight and inertia of the current paradigm.

By: Howard Drive

Howard Drive — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:02:00 +0000

i guess your’e right about that.

By: Paul D. Giammalvo

Paul D. Giammalvo — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:54:13 +0000

I think this article from HBR sums up very nicely why so many people from ALL generations seem to be unhappy with their “work life balance”.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/02/embrace_work-life_imbalan.html?utm_source

Not to date myself, but Pogo was a comic strip from the 1950′s to the 1970′s and one of his most quotable lines- “We has seen the enemy and they is us”…….

Not happy with your job or your life? The face which stares back at you in the morning as you shave or put on your makeup is responsible to change it for the better or leave it as it is…

BR
Dr. PDG, Jakarta, Indonesia.

By: Aristides Legakis

Aristides Legakis — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:27:03 +0000

The cost of living, especially in NYC has been so high the past decade, and most jobs salaries haven’t caught up. In the past working a boring 9 to 5 could support a family, these days it will barely put a dent in your student loans. Maybe gen y is delusional, but is there really an other option?

By: Zakaria Khan

Zakaria Khan — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:15:56 +0000

I like it not bad.

By: Nuoc Tinh Khiet Ecowa

Nuoc Tinh Khiet Ecowa — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:12:04 +0000

I agree with Lizzie.

By: Purbita Ditecha

Purbita Ditecha — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:38:57 +0000

Success comes when I strongly and passionately disagree, I still respect your tastes, ideas, hopes, and opinions.

By: Is Gen Y Delusional About How to Have a Successful Career? | Gen Y at work | Scoop.it

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:22:48 +0000

[...] Think the path to success is straight, fast and ever upward? Here’s why GenY often believes that, and why it’s totally wrong. (Is Gen Y Delusional About How to Have a Successful Career? [...]

By: Rare Form New Media

Rare Form New Media — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:46:51 +0000

Working with an internship is a good way to get practical working experience. I did this while at Uni (and working a regular job). If people put in the time, at the right places they will make it. Good article. x

By: John Mclaren

John Mclaren — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:13:30 +0000

Yes, The reality is always quiet different from the standards. For getting to face the reality, one got to utilize the resources in fruitful manner.Time and tide waits for none and getting to squeeze the juice out of the available time is the best thing that one can do. For Gen Y, focus on the key concepts for getting success through online resources available and developing a synopsis for achieving to a desired goal.

By: Sarah Simpkins

Sarah Simpkins — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:36:30 +0000

There’s certainly a difference of opinion between millennials (Gen Y) starting out in their careers and Gen Xers views on career trajectories. I believe a lot of things contributed to this difference (being raised to pursue ‘what you love’, rewarding the actions and not results as Jan mentioned, etc.) but I don’t think this difference necessarily means Gen Yers are pursuing quick success.

Most of the recent Gen Y grads I have interviewed/written about just want to do things differently/unconventionally. They are taking years off to travel, join the Peace Corps, or teach English abroad. They are starting social enterprises and nonprofits. They are going to work in a corporate environment sometimes, but they have views of operating blogs/entrepreneurial ventures on the side, and on possibly changing careers several times throughout their lives.

The moral of the story is that not everyone wants to be Zuckerberg… but they DO want to leave a lasting impact on the world in a way that they don’t think they will find on the corporate ladder. On the other hand, many Gen Y- friendly companies understand and are responding to this view by offering a new take on the corporate culture and office environment. There’s a reason so many millennials want to work at Google…

For more opinions on millennials in the workplace, see my blog: memoirsofamillennial.com.

By: SWAT Classifieds

SWAT Classifieds — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:27:14 +0000

There definitely are times of failure which are to help us sport the things we should not welcome again or welcome them by using approaches that will bring better results. Success sometimes comes at a single try, but most of the time there are preceding failures before success; all these are to give us experience in our field. In Software Engineering, when a system is designed, we do not expect it to work 100% well, every system designer is looking forward to correcting some errors to make his system more better, this is why we have the Beta parts of products and also why we have upgrades today. In other words, sometimes we are successful in things we do because we were fortunate to get the right result, but sometimes we need to make amendments to get the desired results. Entrepreneurship is not left out. Mr. A may be successful at a try, that does not guarantee you of the same because Mr. A may have some experience that put him on his stand. I do not support the get rich quick scheme. I believe time and dedication are needed to actualize a goal.

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By: Is Gen Y Delusional About How to Have a Successful Career ... | eLearning and Learning for Gen Y | Scoop.it

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:02:27 +0000

[...] Think the path to success is straight, fast and ever upward? Here's why GenY often believes that, and why it's totally wrong. [...]

By: Ryan Gibson

Ryan Gibson — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:05:20 +0000

I think the obsession with success is the wrong phrase to use. Generation Y’s (like myself) want to see the business they are part of develop and reevaluate based on the conditions of the market. I think the reason we expect success so quickly is because businesses are slow to adapt to changes.

Start up’s provide a faster paced environment where Gen Y’s have a bigger voice for their ideas. I’ve worked in large organisations where the implementation of change is so slow the younger generation become frustrated and disillusioned. The Gen Y’s around me had some fantastic ideas which were held up by the slow pace and legacy infrastructure of the company.

I wouldn’t say we are delusional we just have ambition and want to be in the company who can harness that ambition and allow us the authority to make change. I don’t think people expect to be the next Zuckerberg they just want to have a voice in an aging organisation. We need to look at it differently. Companies should be making business decisions for the better and if that means making a rock star out of a Gen Y child then why not?

Thanks,
Ryan
generationyworking.com

By: Legends Are Legends, You are You: Create Your Own Career Path

Legends Are Legends, You are You: Create Your Own Career Path — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:00:54 +0000

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By: Jan Kirby McCorkle

Jan Kirby McCorkle — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:53:27 +0000

as a parent of a grown Gen Y child, I feel like we did a disservice by rewarding the action and not the success *sigh*. I agree that you need to find your ‘niche’, the swelling in your chest and heart that accompanies an accomplishment you are proud of…for Zuckerberg it was making connections. Self-assess, identify your strengths, set your sights on a long-term goal and follow the zigzag path that life takes you while you pursue your goal

By: Cristina Valencia

Cristina Valencia — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:46:48 +0000

is it a matter of Gen Y having false expectations of success or our inability to see alternatives for what success really looks like?

By: CareerFocus Consortium of Community Colleges

CareerFocus Consortium of Community Colleges — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:29:43 +0000

Gen Y isn’t the first to feel youthful optimsm.

By: Lizzie Maldonado

Lizzie Maldonado — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:24:50 +0000

It’s a good post. But c’mon. First — the great clumping of Gen Y is really frustrating. Second — as one of those who calls themselves Gen Y, I know that my parents talked a lot about their successes and very little about their failures… and the generation looking back with hindsight is always quick to point out what the people figuring it out for themselves have wrong, don’t you think?

I’m watching the newest generation — (are we really calling them Gen Z?) — microblog their lives and live semi-adult lives too young and I’ve got a lot to say about that… but I did the same thing.

Just a thought.

By: Spark Hire

Spark Hire — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:55:50 +0000

Great post! Too many young workers, and often workers of all ages, expect their careers to go in a straight vertical line. But indeed there aren’t many careers that take off and move upwards steadily without a hitch. Perhaps you end up losing a great job and move into a different career sector or make a lateral move instead of a move up. If your career trajectory doesn’t look like a straight line, don’t be worried this is going to be a mark against you in the interview process, whether your interview is in person or through online video. It’s unlikely your interviewer’s career looks like a straight line upwards either.