Is the challenge facing millennials due to a lack of full time employment, or due to employers convinced that millennials lack loyalty?
Like many millennials, Jenner Pratt knows only too well the “soul-sucking” challenge of finding full-time employment.
After getting the travel bug out of his system by working abroad as a teaching assistant and an editor in Taiwan for just under two years, Mr. Pratt returned to Canada last summer and began the employment hunt in earnest in July.
A paid internship at a downtown public-affairs company followed, before his quest ended successfully with a full-time position as an analyst at Gravity Partners Ltd., a business-management consultancy in Toronto, in January.
“It’s a full-time job trying to find gainful employment,” the 29-year-old says.
He was far from alone in his struggles. The lack of full-time jobs on offer has relegated many millennials in this country to settling for part-time work and temporary-contract positions. This situation is far from ideal, and one of the problems it creates is that it undermines any sense of loyalty between a worker and a company. This, in turn, can create a problem of perception about millennials.
Article Spotted: Louise Burden
Written by : Paul Attfield
Published : May 5, 2017 Globe and Mail
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