WHAT JOB PROFILES ARE COMPANIES LOOKING FOR IN THE DIFFERENT GENERATIONS?
The changes in our society are reflected in the labour market. Increasingly, companies are looking for employees who want to keep up to date, who want to continue training and who know how to adapt continuously to the new needs that arise in different environments. For this reason, companies are committed to incorporating new professional profiles into their work teams that are up to date with new strategies and digital tools.
In recent years, the need to recruit hybrid professional profiles has arisen. What do we mean? It is that talent that is highly skilled in digital competences and, at the same time, has a deep knowledge of new technologies and their applications, with a strategic and forward-looking vision, as well as an optimal capacity for management and creation of value links.
Human resources departments have detected that there is a significant shortage of this multitasking professional profile in the labour market. For this reason, it is important to have processes for attracting human talent on a permanent basis. With the lack of this profile, some are betting on the creation of heterogeneous teams that can contribute the best of each generation.
Multigenerational teams enhance digital transformation processes quickly and efficiently. Generation X staff bring a vision of the future and strategic knowledge, as they have been in the market for many years. Millennials, on the other hand, are very tech-savvy and know their current and future applications. Finally, Generation Z is highly adaptable, productive and innovative.
Multigenerational teams enhance digital transformation processes quickly and efficiently. Generation X staff bring a vision of the future and strategic knowledge, as they have been in the market for many years. Millennials, on the other hand, are very tech-savvy and know their current and future applications. Finally, Generation Z is highly adaptable, productive and innovative.
Millennials are the “overqualified” generation. They are the generation with more master’s and postgraduate studies, with a great command of languages and with experiences around the world. They are very proactive and creative and tend to be attracted by innovative projects. They are looking for career progression, but not necessarily in the company where they are working. In fact, the average is less than two years in each job they are in. They are not afraid to take risks and take every opportunity to progress, both personally and professionally.
Finally, Generation Z, the youngest generation in the labour market. Their entry into the labour market has taken place in the midst of the economic and social crisis and is thus a generation that looks at the labour market with a certain pessimism, but does not lose its idealism. Their intentions are entrepreneurial, 54% of the members of this generation consider the possibility of creating their own business. They are multicultural and have great communication skills, partly thanks to technology. What they value most in a company is that it allows them to develop personally and emotionally, that it has work-life balance and training policies, and that it is responsible and socially aware. So much so that they are the first generation to attach more importance to the ability to reconcile work and family life than to salary.
The mix of all these skills and the knowledge that each can bring to the table makes multigenerational teams complete and of great value to companies.
