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Generation Z Characteristics |
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Use 5 screens at once - experience distress when kept away from electronic devices.
Generally tolerant of sexual/gender diversity.
Want jobs that provide social impact.
Less healthy, more obese than previous generations.
25% of North American population.
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Generation Z - More Characteristics |
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Older moms (33), longer life expectancy.
Social justice focus, altruistic.
Care about their parents' values.
High formal education, technology ability.
Wealthier parents, fewer siblings, more entertainment options.
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Generation Y Characteristics |
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High expectations for self,
High expectations for employers,
Ongoing learning, goal orientation,
immediate responsibility, savvy with money,
want for jobs to fit family/personal life,
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Generation Y - Other Characteristics |
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comfort with technology, celebrate diversity,
optimistic/realistic, self-inventive,
individualistic, rewrite the rules,
irrelevance of institutions, internet dependent,
multitask fast, nurtured,
friends=family. |
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Generation X Characteristics |
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Independent, enjoy informality, entrepreneurial,
seek emotional maturity, autonomous,
unceremonious, materialistic,
pretentious, arrogant, condescending,
overconfident, critical |
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Generation X - Other Characteristics |
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Want balance and time with their children,
job changers,
accept diversity, self-reliant, reject rules,
mistrust institutions, latch-key kids,
angry with their parents,
"Friends" generation |
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