Talkin’ ‘bout my generation
A senior HR professional was heard to voice her disapproval yesterday at an emailed job application that started “Hi there”.Alarm bells should ring out for leaders everywhere that are employing old fashioned HR people, however senior, that are deploying redundant thinking. The lady in question is a baby boomer, born between 1940 and 1960. She was referring to an application, not by an ‘xer’, born between 1960 and 1980, but by a ‘millennial’, someone born since 1980.
If it is the leaders primary job to attract, keep and develop the best talent that they can afford, the very last thing they need is HR people rejecting applicants at the first hurdle because of their own personal outdated prejudice.
For those that want to find out more, I recommend ‘Mind the gap’ by Graeme Codrington and Sue Grant – Marshall, published by Penguin.
posted by Tim @ 3:36 AM
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