One of the biggest mistakes made by employers when hiring early-career talent is assuming that the recruiting part is over when someone signs an offer. Today’s guest is Ben Siegel, the founder and CEO of the HR technology company, Abode, who knows what it feels like to be left in the lurch after a job offer and is doing his best to ensure it doesn’t happen to others. Abode began as a corporation that hired out students to mow lawns for $25 an hour and has since evolved into a thriving company that helps other companies attract and retain early-career talent across the job spectrum. Early-career talent these days is largely comprised of Gen-Z’ers and in this episode, Ben, who is a Gen-Z’er himself, explains what this generation of job seekers is looking for and debunks some of the common misconceptions that older generations have about them. 

 

Key Points From This Episode:

 

• Ben shares the origin story of Abode. 

• Issues in the talent acquisition space that the pandemic brought to light. 

• Factors that are much more important than the school you attend.

• Roles that Abode’s customers are hiring for. 

• Lessons learned through the research Abode conducted with 5000 Gen-Z job seekers. 

• Misconceptions that older generations have about Gen-Z.

• How employers can build trust amongst their Gen-Z employees.

• One of the biggest mistakes employers make when hiring early-career talent. 

• The process that should follow a job-offer-signing. 

• Things that employers need to communicate to early-career talent.

• The service that Abode offers to employees and employers.

• Parting words of wisdom about how to retain early-stage talent.

 

Tweetables:

 

 

 

“It doesn’t matter where you go to school. If you have the skills and work hard, you can go work at Morgan Stanley. You don’t have to be at Harvard to do that anymore.” — Ben Siegel [0:06:28]

 

“You can boil everything [Gen-Z job seekers] want down into four main things; transparency, connections, respect, and expectations.” — Ben Siegel [0:08:04]

 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

 

Ben Siegel on LinkedIn

Abode

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