HOW TO BETTER INTEGRATE MILLENNIALS INTO THE WORKPLACE

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” –George Orwell

DIGITAL NATIVES VS.

DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS

BARRIERS TO YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

MORE TEMPORARY

AND CONTRACT POSITIONS

TRADITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

DRYING UP MORE TEMPORARY

AND CONTRACT POSITIONS

TRADITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

DRYING UP

EDUCATION IS NOT

MARKET-RELEVANT

MORE TEMPORARY

AND CONTRACT POSITIONS

$24.3 BILLION

“NOT ONLY DO SKILLS SHORTAGES HAVE NEGATIVE IMPACTS, THERE ARE ALSO LOST OPPORTUNITIES DUE TO SKILLS MISMATCHES.”

CRITICAL THINKING

70%

COMMUNICATION

46%

LITERACY

42%

“A QUARTER OF TODAY’S WORKFORCE IS IN JOBS THAT

WERE NOT EVEN LISTED AMONG THE CENSUS

BUREAU’S OCCUPATION CODES IN 1967, AND

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANCE HAS ONLY ACCELERATED

SINCE THEN.”

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RECOMMENDATIONS

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

INVESTMENT IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

CHANGING EDUCATION

CANADA YOUTH VOICE

MOST PREFERRED EMPLOYER CULTURE

29% 26%

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL

OPPORTUNITY FOR IMPACT

29% 26%

11% MOST PREFERRED EMPLOYER

CULTURE

JOB SECURITY

11%

29% EMPLOYER REPUTATION

CORPORATE VALUES

29%

WORK-LIFE BALANCE

INNOVATIVE MINDSET

20% 18%

DO ANY EMPLOYERS OR YOUTH RESONATE WITH THIS MESSAGE?

WHAT DO YOU DO?

GREAT. SO WHAT DO YOU DO?

INNER AND OUTER JOURNEY

Ross Dickson, AIESEC

“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” –Beyoncé