by Brad Clarke | Oct 11, 2014 | Human Resource Management, recruitment
Generation Y & Beyond – a new recruitment paradigm Change In mid 2000 I was invited to lead a scientific research project studying arachnids at altitude in the Nepalese Himalaya. This was an opportunity that I had been waiting for having directed my tertiary studies and vocation into Biology Sciences for about a decade. The experience had a profound impact on me in so many ways but, of most significance, was the opportunity to work with a group of young people participating in the Millennium Expedition For Young Australians, under the patronage of then Federal Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja. During eight weeks in the shadows of the world’s highest peaks, I made a decision to change career and become a Youth Worker, inspired by the young people I lived with in the Himalaya. Some 15 years later, I think I’ve come to understand young people quite well. I’ve sat with some of our most marginalised and damaged kids; I’ve also had time with some of the most determined and dedicated. New World Unquestionably the journey of adolescence has held similar challenges for each young person throughout the generations. It is just as certain that this current generation of young people face challenges and opportunities on an unprecedented scale. As a young person, my world extended little more than a few residential blocks from my home. As far as I was willing to peddle my BMX was the outer perimeter of my turf. Only a decade or two later and kids live in a global community bound only by their access to an iPad or other such device. The arrival of...
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