Hiring Gen Z and Millennial Talent

The millennial generational values along with the generation Y characteristics in the workplace are part of Bodhih’s workshop that focusses on the question: “what characterizes millennials?”

Millennials in the workplace training program at Bodhih is a larger part of the larger recruitment process that should include technical skills assessment/tests, psychometric evaluation, group discussions and multiple interviews by peers, line managers, HR and executive officers.

What is the Hiring Millennials Interviewing process and the interviewing skills that differentiates Millennials vs baby boomers?

Hiring Millennial interviewing skills are centred on understanding the unique mindsets of millennial professionals, preparing and building rapport with the candidate, progressing to ask him or her to make a presentation, thereafter, formulating the questions round for assessing – experience, competence and hypothetical based questions.

Next, the millennial candidate is allowed time and space to ask clarifying questions. Finally, the interview panel adjourns to work out the individual scores and qualitative merits of each interviewee. Broadly speaking, millennial in the workplace interviewing skills are three-fold – effective listening skills, emotional intelligence, and effective questioning skills.

When it comes to identifying the right hire, the mentioned techniques and stages barely scratch the surface.

Hiring millennials program is for hiring managers who want to deep dive into the holistic system of selecting right candidates with an understanding of competency-based probing, contextual variables involved in a hiring like – negotiation discussion, leveraging market intelligence, maximizing internal hire-pipeline, and contain risks intelligently.

Bodhih’s program on hiring millennials in the workplace training kick starts with facilitator led presentation, and flowcharts to build a detailed visual that paints the importance of a competency-based interview. Attention is focussed on the interview format – structure – ways of gathering information – and arriving at summary conclusions. Learners get into role-plays to next appreciate that ‘it is all in the question’

Gen Y characteristics in the workplace needs to be understood while hiring millennials in the workplace

Hiring Millennials at the workplace program helps participants with analysing the various elements that makes up a millennial. Through class presentations, case studies and videos, the learner are exposed to the millennial generational value system, work ethics, the environment that they have grown up, the cultural references, the moral standards, and worldviews of how millennials take in information, organize, process it and finally supply it back.

How to hire millennials in the workplace is often simplified by answering the question what generation Y wants in the workplace?

How to hire millennials? Bodhih’s program spotlights the usual myths that pertain to all of previous generational workers – like Money Vs Appreciation, Engagement Vs Entitlement and Commitments Vs challenges.

Millennials in the workplace training includes modules packed with basic and advanced facts and crystallizes information pertaining to the fundamental ways millennials responds to the changes that are happening to him or her. The class participants delve into the cultural literature and extract readings from the case-studies.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session at the hiring millennials in the workplace – setting context and preparing for a negotiation discussion.

Through facilitator led presentations and group discussions, workshop participants are familiarised with the various elements (salary, joining time, timeframes, job role, job title etc.) that is used in a talent acquisition negotiation scenario. The negotiation process, styles, and understanding one’s own style is explored in depth with class exercises and feedback.
As with the other aspects of this program, there is specific emphasis given to the millennial mindsets.

At Bodhih, hiring millennials in the workplace is a popular session that is part of a larger HR skills training suite.

The session draws richly from research done on 360-degree practices of hiring millennial generational talent and also published insights on Interviewing mindset along with combating the known biases.

The heart of Bodhih’s hiring millennials in the workplace session lies in the powerful section that dissects the topic of leveraging market intelligence and optimizing pipeline and risk management.

Led through a case study, participants gather relevant industry intelligence, map competition, check for skill availability, factor in attrition rates, make a hiring plan and build in their research for the passive talent pool.

Next, Bodhih’s facilitator uses group discussion and case studies to surface collaboration techniques with internal HR teams to source candidates.

Through rich illustrations and real-life simulations, class participants appreciate how to assess various hiring risks such as low-quality hires, increased costs per hire, and the high filtration rate. Next, brainstorming exercises by the learners, unearths many of the risk mitigation plan initiatives.

How would you gain from India’s best hiring millennials in the workplace program at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its hiring Generation Y in the workplace program along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the hiring millennials workshop takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s hiring millennial workshops comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise hiring millennial practices by embedding effective understanding of millennial mindsets – their values, ethics, work rhythms, and the multiple competency based probing techniques, and empathic listening skills,

What is Bodhih’s promise on hiring millennials in the workplace programs?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on hiring millennials in the workplace talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, demonstrating reliance on STAR hiring techniques, increasing preparation around competency based scoring and also capitalizing on various (internal and external) talent acquisition channels.

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