Recruiting and Retaining Early Career Technical Talent – How to attract and retain Millennials

Millennials constitute the most educated, most informed, and most interconnected generation in history, making them highly desirable employees. They are also now the largest generation, making it critical that Research and Development organizations seeking to sustain innovation programs facing baby boomer retirements figure out how to attract and keep them. R&D organizations must compete to attract and retain early career technical talent; thus, they must understand the workplace characteristics and professional development opportunities that early-career staff is looking for. To better understand these characteristics, an Innovation Research Interchange (IRI)1 member working group set out to explore millennials work-life preference and identify the attributes of workplace environments and cultures that are attractive and provide insights to R&D organizations
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