Why Millennials Have a Tough Time Landing Jobs

Focus here is on a very small number of graduates. No one I know and I know 100s of millenials commit these bone headed mistakes.

What a condescending bunch of horseshit. These kinds of stories are always awful but this one is particularly galling. Why millennials have a tough time landings jobs? Maybe because they came onto the job market in the midst of the greatest economic slump since the great depression? Maybe because systemic, unrelenting unemployment has recently become a basic feature of the economy? Through no fault of their own, "millenials" (I hate these terms) have come onto the job market at the worst time that anyone younger than 100 can remember.

Note that I am not a millennial and I've been lucky enough to skate past this business relatively unscathed. But I find it pretty disgusting to spectate upon the misfortunes of others and then write Shadenfreude puff pieces like this, attributing these misfortunes to the moral failures of the victims.

Ever notice how every decade or so there are tons of news stories featuring 40-50 year old reporters and experts talking about the horrific flaws in the younger generation?

It always seems to be the generation, rather than the fact that twenty somethings have always acted like twenty somethings.

A better reason why millennials have a tough time:

Baby boomers who lost a big chunk of retirement savings in 401 k(s) (or more likely property investments) and have yet to rebuild their retirement nest egg are hanging onto their jobs longer, leaving less vacant seats for new hires.

I find it difficult to believe that there is a problem with an ENTIRE generation rather than a problem with hiring practices at the kind of companies that complain about these things.

Every generation says the generation immediately after theirs is the worst generation ever!