I know several people who work with millennials these days…this one’s for you.
“Most job-seeking millennials are so focused on overcompensating for their millennialness on their resume that they’re missing opportunities to sell their sought-after skill set. What millennials lack in legitimate career experience they make up for in ambition, GIFs, and slang that will make you feel old…To jumpstart your millennial resume revamp, take inspiration from this attempt at what an honest millennial resume would look like.
Career Summary
Bright, on fleek, detail-oriented, dependable af, creative, selfie-starting, ninja-leader-team player looks to build upon skills in a challenging new role…
My base salary requirements for my next position fall within the $100,000 to $1,000,000 range. This figure is based on my own audacious inflation of the value of my skills and my parents recent threat to stop paying my iPhone data plan.”
What An Honest Millennial Resume Would Look Like – Sass & Balderdash
Riddle from the Middle 
Loved this. So true.
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The stories I’ve heard are, granted, probably the worst of the bunch but nonetheless…some of it is just shocking. As someone who started babysitting at 10 and got her first taxable job at 15, I find it nearly impossible to understand some of the attitude out there.
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You know, I fully realize that this is tongue in cheek, but it makes me kind of sad. At 29, I’m just on the outer limit of “millennial” or inner limit of Generation Y.
This generation is known for being entitled, but most I know are hardworking and talented. For nearly all, salary requirements are more like “please, please, please pay me enough that I don’t default on my school loans (which are more than any previous generation by a lot – even taking inflation into account) and can also eat. Those of us who don’t live with our parents are considered to be doing well, many float in and out simply because school loans are equivalent to a full-on mortgage. (Not to mention, we graduated high school and college into the worst job market since the Great Depression.)
Research also indicates that millennials will work their selves to the bone for work that they believe in. Many go into low salary jobs with nonprofits and start ups because they value doing good in the world more than financial wealth.
There’s an awful lot of good in the millennial generation that just doesn’t get recognized.
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Always interesting to read another perspective. I have three close friends who supervise millennials in the business world & the stories they’ve told me are shocking. I’m sure not all millennials act like they’re entitled to perks before putting in the time or seem to lack an understanding of basic workplace etiquette, but there are some folks out there giving you a bad name.
This was definitely shared as tongue in cheek (which is how I believe the author intended it)…
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