SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- The proportion of federal employees under age 30 has shrunk from 9.1 percent in 2010 to 6.6 percent in 2014. This equates to a decrease of more than 45,000 workers, according to recent data from Deloitte and the Partnership for Public Service. Deloitte in its analysis says a key factor is a decline of new hires –- not turnover -– dispelling the idea that turnover among Millennials is higher than that of other generations.
How can the hiring trend shift? Professor of the Practice in Systems Thinking and Design Gerald Suarez at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business tells the Baltimore Sun that while NASA and intelligence agencies appeal to Millennials, they’re turned off by bureaucracy and stagnant institutions.
Agencies should show young professionals a "pathway to a purpose,” says Suarez, a former White House advisor. Instead of highlighting how they can work their way up the career ladder, they should show them how their work will make a difference. Millennials "want to be unshackled by policies and regulations that restrict them from seeking new possibilities," Suarez says. "They like to work with people who inspire them and pull the future into the present."
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