Three innate skills held by millennials
Baby boomers can be highly critical of millennials when it comes to, well, everything. Yet for all their faults, it seems the younger generation do possess innate qualities that allow them to flourish in the workforce.
Whether it’s a propensity for adapting to new challenges, handling technical issues or spearheading social media campaigns, millennials bring plenty to the table.
Pivoting
The polite term for jobhunting, pivoting is essentially the practice of changing jobs regularly to expedite career growth. However, the true advantage of pivoting is not racking up titles to fill your CV, but acquiring new skills and, having entered a workforce where this is the norm, millennials have been bred with a mindset geared towards flexibility and adaptability.
These abilities are especially useful for start-up businesses, where a multitude of challenges await, or the expansion of established companies that require fresh, innovative ideas to grow further.
Tech-savvy
Millennials are considered digital natives — people exposed to technology and the internet from an early age. Consequently, they are expected to be up-to-date with the latest digital trends, and more often than not, they are.
Technology is a significant part of growing businesses in the modern era, putting millennials in a rare position of authority compared with their more experienced peers. Having grown up in the advent of rapid digital advancement, millennials are perfectly poised to utilise technology in the workplace.
Social media proficiency
Organisations are coming to grips with the fact that a neglected Facebook page doesn’t cut it anymore – many companies are employing teams of social media and digital marketing gurus to get the edge on competitors and build a greater client or customer base.
Millennials are the perfect candidates to fill these roles. After all, they are the ones who helped propel social networking into the mainstream with a thirst for sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Instagram.
