Hiring millennials have never been easy. To attract them companies across the world and global placement agencies had to rethink their entire working model. It is because of the millennials that brand value, work culture and integrated working structures did made their way to define any organization.
Learning became a two way process where millennials taught organizations how technology, social media platforms and socially responsible actions can change the future of work and economy.
However despite that retaining them has always been a challenge where job hopping, lack of emotional connect towards a particular work, easy going nature and individualistic mind set towards growth are largely characterized with them. Non engaging millennials can be a big mess for organizations.
So sometimes the big questions which HR managers usually face is whether to hire them or not. Hence it is essential that during interview we try to assess their behavioural pattern. Let us discuss some set of questions which we can use while interacting with millennials.
- What goals do you want to achieve with this job?
It is essential to understand that why a millennial is there for the interview, whether there is a clear understanding about the job role which she or he has to do or it is just for the sake of gaining interview experience is the millennial there.
- What have you done in the past that will help you do this job?
It is always good to understand the experiences of millennials. How have they dealt with a particular situation and how do they perceive work. Here both on-job and off-job experiences can be considered for mapping the situational behaviour of an individual.
- How would you handle challenges in respect to timeline, customer satisfaction and internal team relations?
In order to understand how easy attitude does an individual holds towards work ethics, it is essential to develop interactions that assess a mindset. Try to make it more casual and stress-free so that the millennial gives free and open insights about his or her thoughts.
- What kind of relationship would you like to establish with your senior managers and team mates?
It is generally observed that millennials don’t accept traditional hierarchical system they want more open systems where integrated process systems are involved. Try to bring in the working mechanisms which are established within your organization so that they are already updated about the structure.
- Describe your day in office?
Here a time period with options such as break, meeting, seat sitting time among others can be given to them and then they can decided how much time would they like to spend on each activity. This will give an understanding as to how productive is an individual ready to spend the day.
The list can go on but some of these questions can be helpful in gauging a millennial mind.
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