Need help preparing a public works-focused recruitment and retention strategy for Generation Alpha/Gen Z? By 2025, this generation will represent 25 percent of the global population and will be entering the workforce. Growing up during a pandemic, recession, mental health epidemic, remote work experiment, and technological revolution has helped to define these future employees. Hear from high school students as they share their reactions to research on industry statistics and trends. Areas of analysis and interpretation will include industry needs, community expectations, and employee motivations, values, strengths, and differences. There will be a focus on historically marginalized groups because the workplace will see more female and minority leaders given the increase in diversity among the talent pool, and communities and community needs are becoming more diverse. Research will be used by the students to develop a flexible recruitment and mentoring framework that they believe will respond to various barriers of entry and that can be tailored to the local needs of any community. This framework will then be implemented and studied. Those results will be presented at a future conference.
After this session, participants will be better able to:
• Identify the skills and differences that Gen Alpha is prepared to bring into the workforce.
• Develop recruitment and retention strategies for Gen Alpha.
• Prepare to integrate the new ideas and frameworks that will be needed to maximize strengths and differences brought into the multi-generational workforce by Gen Alpha.
Contributor/Source
Asia Dixon-Student, Brantley Edwards-Student, Caleb Thompson-Student, Guerrin Mueller-Student, Nandi Stewart-Student, Tasha Johnson
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