Only Hiring Entry Level Employees, Survey Results About Working w/ Gen Z

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It’s that awkward Monday between the weekend and a holiday but the Auto Industry is showing up just the same! Today we’re talking about COO of Bozard Ford Ed Roberts’ perspective on only hiring entry level employees. We also cover the results of a new survey focusing on managers' sentiment toward Gen Z. 

Show Notes with links:

• Check out Ed Roberts talking about only hiring entry level employees during his interview on Auto Collabs
• According to a survey from ResumeBuilder.com, 74 percent of managers say Gen Z workers are more challenging to work with than previous generations. 
  • “What Gen Z wants is to do meaningful work with a sense of autonomy and flexibility and work-life balance and work with people who work collaboratively,” Julie Lee, director of technology and mental health at Harvard Alumni for Mental Health
  • “Gen Z are digital natives and they’ve always communicated online, so their interpersonal skills, or soft skills, have suffered,” Tara Salinas, a business ethics professor at San Diego University, recently told CNBC. “They took an even bigger hit because of Covid-19, and it has shifted the way that we need to interact with them in the workplace.”
  • The survey found Gen Z difficult to work with were lack of technological skills, cited by 39 percent; lack of motivation, 37 percent; poor communication skills, 36 percent; and being easily offended, 35 percent.
• The 2500-year history of adults blaming the younger generation

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