Generation Z - the next workforce

Generation Z or Gen Z is generation born between 1995 and 2009, who goes by many nickname such as The Silent Generation, The Internet generation, The iGeneration, Generation Now, The Google Generation.

Here are a few of the habits of Generation Z: 

Daily life 
They want everything, everywhere and immediately. They surf on two screens simultaneously. They don't mind paying through the nose for the latest smart phone but turn up their nose at paying for a film or a song when you can get that for free online.
Aged 13 to 20, they get all the latest trends from social media and find the morals of their elders out-of-date.
Their fashions are those found worldwide over the web: they watch American blockbusters like "Hunger Games" or "Divergent", listen to Korean K-pop and, when they dance, they "twerk".
When they speak, their vocabulary is peppered with acronyms, incomprehensible to those not in the know. "Swag" is the new "cool".
And their new idols are Internet stars, like PewDiePie, who has the world's most subscribed YouTube channel.

What they know
Even as young as they are, they have already seen so many technologies become obsolete. For this reason, they have become the ultimate "self-educators", learning how to use new stuff via self-help videos on YouTube.
As for the web, violence, porn, they've already seen it all.

Friends
People from Generation Z find it easier to talk online than in person. Their friends on social media are as important to them as their friends in real life but sometimes they do actually meet up in person with these "virtual" pals.
More than eight out of 10 are hooked on social networks and more than half of them think that this is where their real social life takes place.
They are on dating websites from the age of 16 -- sometimes before.

Generation Z at work 
This is a generation that wants to create their own company -- between 50 percent and 72 percent want to run their own start-up.
The idea of "business" brings up negative responses: "complicated", "brutal", "a jungle".
They believe success comes from their "network" rather than from qualifications and they prefer a flat organization to a hierarchy at work.
They want to succeed and achieve, with 76 percent aiming to make their hobby their job.

What they watch 
According to US consultancy Sparks and Honey, the average Generation Z-er spends more than three hours a day in front of a screen.
They live in constant "FOMO", fear of missing out. They can't stand the idea of not being in the loop when something new and exciting comes out.
Facebook is their main poison, despite its flagging popularity among some Americans. Photos on Instagram, quick messages on Snapchat. Twitter and Tumblr are omnipresent.
But it's not all passive: Generation Z are also putting themselves out there on YouTube or "Vlogging" (video blogging), hoping to become the next "Fred" (Lucas Cruikshank), who made his name at the grand old age of 13.
Everyone surfs the web while watching the TV and they think that everything is possible with technology. But, they have a short attention span and tend to skim-read rather than read properly, which can lead to difficulty at school.

The future of Generation Z 
These are children of the crisis and it shows in their outlook. Most of them say they are "stressed out" by what they see as a bleak future, especially in terms of economy and environment.
Given the same pay, 25 percent of the Generation Z in France would choose the most "fun" company, 22 percent the most innovative and 21 percent the most ethical.
But like any idealistic generation, they want to change the world and love the idea of volunteer work, which a quarter of Americans in their late teens are already doing.

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3 rules to hire a right candidate at first

Rule 1: Hire for Today’s Need and Tomorrow’s Vision
Be a good employer, you always have to remember this first rule: “hire for today’s need and tomorrow’s vision”.
Don’t count on your conversational skills to choose between candidates. The employees will be trained so before recruiting. You have to be sure that the employees have qualifies for today works, especially they have skill for improving future business

Rule 2: Understanding the Job
Ask yourself what kinds of people do the best in this job? If you’re lucky enough to have a top performer already in the job, learn from them.
Observe their behavior, ask them questions and talk with their peers to get a clear understanding what characteristics make them effective in their job. This kind of job analysis drives your selection standards, do a good job at this first step and the rest of the hiring process will be faster, easier and yield a better match.

Rule 3: Writing an effective job posting
In fact, everyone is attracted by profit.
You should realize that how much obligation you want from your employees, how much interest you have to give them.
So your job posting is more specific, is better.

Finally, you have all material for a good recruitment campaign. Now just put you job offer at your website, your social network and some website relating to recruitment.
In other hand, if you are so busy, you can hire a recruitment agency for selecting resume that meet you requirement and all you work is just interviewing and pick up the most potential candidates.

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9 steps to manage manpower effectively

Managing manpower involves an innate understanding of different work and communication styles, as well as different personality types. A manager who cannot garner the respect of his workers runs the risk of receiving poor attitude and performance. Some time they are out of control and hire an agency supplying manpower services. So how to help managers to get control their workers?

Step 1: Smart Recruitment. 

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Select the most appropriate forms of manpower for the project in question. This means reviewing work credentials, asking for references and following up with previous employers. Conduct in-person interviews to get a better sense of the applicant’s knowledge in the field, his work ethic and his personality.

Step 2: Orient New Workers. 
To make sure that, new workers realize about the company, its products, services, policies, procedures; especially their role, their responsibilities and the expectations of the job, every new hire should have an orientation.

Step 3: Organized Action Plan.
Create an organized action plan in which each worker knows his or her specific responsibilities for every project. Besides, an organized action plan lets manpower know which abilities complement need at work.

Step 4: Full tools and resources.
Provide workers with all of the tools and resources they need to be successful and maintain safe working conditions at all times.

Step 5: Develop goals and measurements.
As part of your operating plan, a goal will let manpower know where they have to come. If a problem arises, evaluate it immediately and take corrective action to rectify the situation.

Step 6: Address conflict.
If there are problems among team members, conduct a conflict resolution session in which each person is able to air his or her grievances. Take the matter under consideration, reference corporate policy for addressing the issue at hand and follow up with the employees about how the issue will be rectified.
Remember that address conflict as soon as it arises.

Step 7: Salary.
Make sure employees are paid in full and on time for services rendered.

Step 8: Be Accessible to Workers.
To make sure that manpower can reach you if they have questions or concerns about their jobs or their coworkers.

Step 9: Recognize & Reward
Recognize and reward superior levels of performance. This approach can motivate your manpower to perform at optimum levels and raise morale throughout the ranks.

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How to have a modern workplace?

A good manager not only knows manage his/ her workers but also they should to know how to change their traditional workplace. Below there are some impacts that managers should to change in mordern wworkplace

Working hours
By law, flexi time has to be offered by many employers if a worker can provide a good final result. With the increase in enabling technologies, the traditional office is becoming redundant as increasingly worker distribution and home working becomes ever more realisable. Some companies are even going so far as to allow workers the freedom to set the length of their own holidays.

Sustainable office
A watchword for every business these days as consumers and workers become increasingly aware of their environment, greener workplaces are becoming the norm, with ride to work and recycling schemes and carpools only the tip of the iceberg as companies realize the benefits of allowing staffs to work in a more sustainable, life enhancing way.

Cultural shift
With a relaxed attitude towards working hours comes a more relaxed management style, where staff are no longer micromanaged but are trusted to set their own agendas and to work in the way they find the most productive. Linear managerial structures and democratic workplaces are replacing the hierarchical management style of old, where each individual, whether young or old is valued rather than subject to superiority or inferiority. Instead, more experienced workers will mentor inexperienced co-workers, leading by showing rather than telling.

Wellness to work
With a shift to a healthy work life balance has come the idea that healthy employees are happy employees, and the success of workplace wellness schemes is borne out by the productivity increases as days lost to absenteeism and ill health fall. The trend looks set to continue as company gym membership, health insurance or even in-house massage and free fruit schemes become increasingly commonplace.

Social networks
As the location of staff becomes increasingly fragmented, some companies are setting up their own social networks to allow socialization between staff who may rarely meet face to face. The awareness that down time among work colleagues is important for developing relationships and encouraging collaboration is increasing among forward thinking businesses who believe staff happiness is the key to productivity.

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Common Things in The Success People (Part 2)

Continue the part 1, now we turn on the part 2 of " Common Things in The Success People".

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6. Find Mentors
You cannot go it alone. It can be hard to learn from books. And the internet makes it difficult to separate truth from fiction.
You need someone who has been there to show you the ropes. A Yoda. A Mister Miyagi.
Yes, 10K hours of deliberate practice can make you an expert butwhat makes you dedicate 10K hours to something in the first place?
As Adam Grant of Wharton explains, the answer is great mentors:
Why would somebody invest deliberate practice in something? It turns out that actually most of these world-class performers had a first coach, or a first teacher, who made the activity fun.

7. Have Grit

That’s grit. Perseverance. And it’s one of the best predictors of success there is.
Via Dan Pink’s excellent book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
The best predictor of success, the researchers found, was the prospective cadets’ ratings on a noncognitive, nonphysical trait known as “grit”—defined as “perseverance and passion for long-term goals.”

Researchers have found that grit exists apart from IQ and is more predictive of success than IQ in a variety of challenging environments:

Defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4% of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among 2 samples of adults (N = 1,545 and N = 690), grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates (N = 138), retention in 2 classes of United States Military Academy, West Point, cadets (N = 1,218 and N = 1,308), and ranking in the National Spelling Bee (N = 175).

Howard Gardner studied some of the greatest geniuses of all time. One quality they all had in common sounds an awful lot like grit.

Via Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi:

…when they fail, they do not waste much time lamenting; blaming; or, at the extreme, quitting. Instead, regarding the failure as a learning experience, they try to build upon its lessons in their future endeavors. Framing is most succinctly captured in aphorism by French economist and visionary Jean Monnet: “I regard every defeat as an opportunity.”

8. Make Awesome Mistakes
Failure is essential.
Losers like to hear that because it makes them feel better about their past mistakes. Winners use it to go make more mistakes they can learn from.

Always be experimenting. In his excellent book Little Bets, Peter Simsexplains the system used by all the greats:
The mindset is what makes a big difference. The willingness to spend 5 to 10% of your time doing experiments will, over the long run, really open up that part of you that can be more creative and entrepreneurial, and yield, hopefully, some new opportunities that you hadn’t thought of before trying something.

You must wrestle with your ideas. Dissect, combine, add, subtract, turn them upside down and shake them. Get ideas colliding.

Via Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity:
Successful creators engage in an ongoing dialogue with their work. They put what’s in their head on paper long before it’s fully formed, and they watch and listen to what they’ve recorded, zigging and zagging until the right idea emerges.

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Common Things in The Successful People (Part 1)

1. Build Networks
Nobody at the top of the heap goes it alone. And those at the center of networks benefit the most.
Paul Erdos is the undeniable center of the mathematics world. Ever heard of “six degrees of Kevin Bacon”? Paul Erdos is the Kevin Bacon of math.
This is no exaggeration. In fact, it’s barely a metaphor — it’s just fact.
How did he become the center of the math world?
He was a giver.
I’ve posted a lot about networking and as great networkers like Adam Rifkin advise, Paul Erdos gave to others. He made those around him better.

Via The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth: He knew better than you yourself knew what you were capable of…He gave the confidence that many of us needed to embark on mathematical research.

2. Create Luck
Luck isn’t magical - there’s a science to it.
Richard Wiseman studied lucky people for his book Luck Factor, and broke down what they do right.
Certain personality types are luckier because they behave in a way that maximizes the chance for good opportunities.
By being more outgoing, open to new ideas, following hunches, and being optimistic, lucky people create possibilities.
Does applying these principles to your life actually work? Wiseman created a “luck school” to test the ideas - and it was a success.
Via Luck Factor: In total, 80 percent of people who attended Luck School said that their luck had increased. On average, these people estimated that their luck had increased by more than 40 percent.

3. Busy

Via Daily Rituals - How Artists Work: “Sooner or later,” Pritchett writes, “the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.”

What did Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer find when he looked at high achievers like LBJ and Robert Moses? 60-65 hour work weeks were not uncommon.

Via Managing With Power - Politics and Influence in Organizations: In a study of general managers in industry, John Kotter reported that many of them worked 60 to 65 hours per week–which translates into at least six 10-hour days. The ability and willingness to work grueling hours has characterized many powerful figures… Energy and strength provide many advantages to those seeking to build power.

When Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied geniuses for his book Creativity, he realized something fascinating about IQ.

No one who changed the world had an IQ under 130 - but the difference between 130 and 170 was negligible. As long as you were past the 130 IQ threshold, it was all about how hard you worked.

4. Know What You Are
In his classic essay Managing Oneself, Pete Drucker is very clear - ignore your weaknesses and keep improving your strengths: "In identifying opportunities for improvement, don’t waste time cultivating skill areas where you have little competence. Instead, concentrate on - and build on - your strengths."
This means knowing who you are, what you are and what you are good at.

Harvard professor Gautam Mukunda, author of Indispensable - When Leaders Really Matter, says this is key for leaders: "More than anything else, “Know thyself.” Know what your type is. …Think about your own personality… For instance, if you are a classic entrepreneur, you can’t work in an organization. Know that."

5. Just Say No
Warren Buffett once said: "The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything."
And that’s what gives them the time to accomplish so much.

In Creativity, Csikszentmihalyi makes note of the number of high achievers who declined his request to be in the book. Why did they say no? They were too busy with their own projects to help him with his. Achievement requires focus. And focus means saying “no” to a lot of distractions

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5 huge risks that you should take before dying

What is the one thing we all have more than enough of? Regret.
Someday we'll all look back and think, "What if? What if I had only done that.. or said that.. or tried that?"
Like Mark Twain said, "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
You can always recover, learn and build from mistakes, but when you do nothing, that automatically means there is nothing to improve or salvage or discover.
And all you're left with is, "What if?"
Here are five smart risks you should take before you die. I promise you'll be glad (if not now then definitely someday) that you did.

5 huge risks that you should take before dying

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