AT Think

IMGCAP(1)] Think you know what young CPAs want from their firms? Think again. In November 2008, a group of 15 young staff from Chicago area firms got together for the Fourth Annual Rosenberg Associates Staff Forum to get candid about what it’s really like to be young and just starting out in an accounting firm. Here are some of the key realizations from that meeting:

Ever have a Boomer in your firm ask a younger worker a verbal question only to have that younger worker respond via email or instant message—even when they sit in the same room?

Not all Millennials are Millennials.

Gen Yworkers are perceived by recruiters as the weakest performers among the fourgenerations now in the workforce, according to a poll by Internet careers siteJobfox quoted in The Chronicle Herald.

IMGCAP(1)]One of the enduring lessons I’ve learned over my career is the value of having mentors. In my experience, the advice, guidance, and encouragement of a wise and trusted mentor has been invaluable.

Are Millennials into e-mailing or not? Marketing minds want to know. A recent study has revealed that 28 percent of Generation Y recipients found email received from companies to be relevant, while 32 percent had no opinion.

Things may start looking up by the end of the year for those in the finance and accounting profession, according to a survey by Morgan McKinley, a global professional recruitment consultancy firm.

It’s a relevant question given today’s crapshoot of an economy. Students spend years studying finance, auditing and budgeting, join their local chapters of professional associations and network with key practitioners in their community. As thousands of graduates enter the workforce this month the question remains: now what?

Young employees don’t want to work.

"'Onboarding': the process of acquiring, accommodating,assimilating and accelerating new team members, whether they come fromoutside or inside the organization. It is used to refer to theadministrative work involved with setting an employee up in a new jobor role. Onboarding is now more broadly defined as the entire processof aligning an organization around recruiting, hiring, and helping thenew employee reach full productivity as quickly as possible." - from Wikipedia.org.