When Millennials Take Over

Can I Bring My Mom to the Job Interview?

You’re an HR professional who is responsible for screening and hiring new employees. One day, a young applicant for an opening in finance arrives for her job interview “with her Mom in tow.” You can’t believe the applicant’s inappropriate behavior. But, it may surprise you to know that nearly one out of 10 millennial job applicants has a parent come along on employment interviews.

Many older workers look askance at Gen Y employees, the millennials. They consider them spoiled, entitled and misguided. Many forget that about every two decades, a generation of young people joins the workforce. As they do, older employees react badly to the incursion. Older workers had best get used to millennials. They are entering the workforce during a transitional period of revolutionary change in the world of management, a change they’ve directly influenced.

A New World of Work

The radical transformation now underway is due to three factors:

1. “The decline of traditional management” – Frederick Winslow Taylor, the father of modern management, published The Principles of Scientific Management in...