How to Attract Millennials to Your Organization

How to Attract Millennials to Your Organization

Whether your business is based in New York or Buenos Aires, you need the right people working for you. The problem is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to hang on to talent in the workplace. Research carried out by major employers has indicated that millennials don’t stick around if they are not 100% happy in their job. Instead, they stay for approximately two years and then jump ship in search of more money and better perks. How can you as an employer prevent this from affecting your organization’s growth?
Young people are often in a lot of debt by the time they graduate from a masters in nursing online program from the University of Arizona, even though online study is cheaper than traditional avenues of education. Graduates recognize the fact that need a good job to be able to pay off their student loans, but at the same time, tempted by the lure of big name employers such as Google and PWC, they don’t want their career path to be hindered by a stint in a lesser organization.
Millennials are the largest section of the modern workforce, but they are not evenly distributed. Established companies are often at a disadvantage when pitted against cool new tech startups. Government departments and businesses operating in less attractive niches really struggle to attract and keep talented millennials, which is making them less competitive. So what’s the answer?
Offer Training Resources
Millennials are very career focused. They prize growth and development above material wealth, so you can’t afford to take on a talented millennial and then not offer them plenty of opportunities for career progression and skills growth. There are lots of ways to do this. You could offer employees time off to pursue further education such as a MSN online, or you could provide regular training sessions in the workplace. Both approaches have been shown to be effective.

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2017 Global Good Fund Fellowship

Do you know a social entrepreneur or promising young leader who is working tirelessly to improve our world?

The Global Good Fund is accepting applications from social entrepreneurs for our 2017 Fellowship Program cohort.

About our Fellowship: The Global Good Fund Fellowship is a 15-month program supporting the leadership development of young social entrepreneurs across the globe. The Global Good Fund invests by pairing each entrepreneur with an executive mentor, and by providing leadership assessment resources, a network of peers, sector expertise, and financial support.

To-date, The Global Good Fund has invested 15,000 hours and $1,050,000 in the leadership development of 40 entrepreneurs representing 25 countries and industries including education, technology, renewable energy, youth development, healthcare, water sanitation, and sustainable fashion. We plan to support 14 Fellows in our 2017 cohort.

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One company who is making a big impact in the 3D printing industry in Argentina is Trideo

One company who is making a big impact in the 3D printing industry in Argentina is Trideo. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak to one of the co-founders, Nicolas Berenfeld. Here is their story:

Hi Nicolas, how did Trideo start?

“My idea for Trideo started when I was introduced to this technology when I was incubated in the CMD (Centro Metropolitano de Diseño) for another startup. I then met Laurent who is now my business partner and the person with whom I started the company. Our initial idea was to make just one 3D printer for ourselves to see how it worked but we soon discovered that there was a big demand for them. We decided to build a few open-source models (Prusa I3) to sell and within a month we had over seven orders! So we carried on making the printers but decided to stop the commercialization soon after because we realized that this model was not very easy to use for those who are just starting up in the 3D printing world because it requires technical knowledge that a lot of people lack. That is when we decided to start designing and developing our own model focusing on the user experience. The idea was to make a printer which was much more robust and much easier to use. We had to develop the hardware of the machine, the firmware, and also the software so it was 3 different developments. With 3D printing you always need a slicing software to choose the printing parameters. Normally, here in Argentina, people use open-source programs which are good, but the interface is really complicated. So we developed a much more user-friendly interface that works with an open-source slicing software. We created a basic and advanced mode to allow people to have the flexibility of choosing the parameter that they wanted. We launched the first model, the PrintBox, in March 2015 and soon after we released a bigger model due to popular demand. We now have the PrintBox Max and the mini PrintBox. The volume of the PrintBox Max is 4 times greater than that of the PrintBox and has since become our best-selling model.”

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Job opportunity to seize in Buenos Aires with TOPHOTELPROJECTS!


TALENTS WANTED!

TOPHOTELPROJECTS, a German investor company is looking for a small team of people with the entrepreneurial spirit and the hard will to rock the world from Buenos Aires!

The concept: an online multi-platform around global hotel-development, -design, – construction and –supply.

The ideal team: three people with the following skill-set (fluent English is a must for all):

Development
WordPress in perfection

B2B Online Marketing
SEO, SEA, Google Adwords, Analytics, Piwik, Linkedin etc

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Female Tech and Entrepreneur Experts Wanted: How to Get Yourself on Stage and in the Press
 Not one for women’s only events, Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR and MarketingMass Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women, is a fixture in the Boston start-up scene. One technology event after another, she kept encountering what she calls DAMP: dreaded all male panel. “I heard all the tales of woe from conference organizers, making excuses such as ‘I had women but they cancelled,'” says Carlton. And when there were women on stage, it was always the same few. Sick and tired of the excuses, she set out to solve the problem. She started Innovation Women, an online speakers bureau for event managers to find technical and entrepreneurial women for their events.

Carlton has found her entrepreneurial calling by helping the underdog. This set her up nicely to help technical and entrepreneurial women get on more stages and help event coordinators connect with a wider variety of experts by focusing on the underserved populations, the underdogs, in both the demand and supply sides of event speakers.

Demand for Qualified Speakers

When it comes to event planning, the underdogs Carlton serves are those who are booking for grassroots events and event managers looking for speakers new to audiences of big venue and on-site events. “There is a speaker’s paradise happening right now,” says Carlton. With 1.5 million events through Eventbrite last year, 92,000 business and professional associations, and 550,000 meet-ups every month, not to mention the 50,000 Tedx talks from around the world over the past six years, there is no shortage of opportunities for experts to earn their speaker stripes.

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A great article surrounding the topic of women in tech and how they are perceived

Facebook exec: Let’s talk about my brain, not babies

Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook12:59 p.m. EDT September 25, 2015

(Photo: Jesse Lirola Photography)

Spoiler alert: my uterus doesn’t have much to say on the matter of technology and how it can improve people’s lives, though my brain has quite a bit to offer.

The same is true for all the other women who have leadership roles in the tech industry. So why is it that when women get up on stage at tech conferences, the conversation so often turns to child-rearing, pregnancy, and “work/life balance?”

A few months ago, I attended Fortune Brainstorm, a tech conference in Aspen with an impressive lineup of speakers, including my former colleague Susan Wojcicki, who currently serves as CEO of YouTube. Susan has one of the most celebrated careers in tech, and I was excited to hear her talk about her vision for YouTube, a product I worked on for a number of years and still care deeply about. She also happened to lead Google’s advertising business for years. This woman is a pro. So I was expecting some exciting insights into how she thinks about the industry, how YouTube’s monetization efforts will evolve, etc.

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