Intern Mentality = Product of Generation Y.

Recent college graduates are very important to have in the work environment. I have been in the real world work force for 8 months and have noticed the benefits of having a young person in the working environment.

Before graduating, many college students must partake in an internship. This gets them real work experience while striving to learn new things. College grads are use to learning new things and bring the intern mentality of learning to their job. Every day I learn something new, whether it is a new computer system, what to wear when meeting the company CEO, and better ways to sell our product.

We like to go to work. Well, we haven’t been doing it for long, so coming in to work in the morning is better than staying up all night writing a term paper. With coffee in our system (probably a skinny cinnamon dolce latte from Starbucks) we enter the office with a tolerable amount of perkiness. Most other employees who have been in the work force are groggy and need an hour to relax in the office before getting started. Intern mentality, generation Y peeps are ready to get started.

College graduates have also gotten the “latest” information in technology and new, innovative and creative ways to make the work place better. It can either be new ways to sell to clients, a creative way to market and how to keep the work environment fun (did anyone say Dance Dance Revolution tournament?)

So, make sure to get a Generation Y as part of your team, we are driven to learn new things and can bring great ideas to your organization.
……………when you hire a person with intern mentality, just make sure you know how to communitcate with us!

(My friend also wrote about being young in the work environment.)