About this event
Join Rebecca for the Association for Accounting Administration 2009 National Practice Management Conference on June 17th as she presents Live First, Work Second: Getting Inside the Minds of the Next Generation and What Makes a Next Generation Firm?
Next Generation Consulting (NGC) has been studying the work and community preferences of young talent, aged 20-40, since 1998. In that time, they've talked with over 30,000 people - most of them young, knowledge workers - who have shared their work and life preferences with us. Rebecca's opening keynote - Live First, Work Second - will focus on answering:
- Which is more important: a city or a job?
- At work, what does the next generation want? How is it the same or different from what more experienced workers want?
- If I'm trying to attract a new hire to relocate to the region, which city and company assets should I focus on, and who can help me?
Rebecca's afternoon session will focus on building next companies. Is your firm a talent magnet? Do you easily find, hire and keep the best
and the brightest? If you’re struggling to attract and keep your future
workforce, you’re not alone. The demographics are against you. Look
around your workplace – what’s the average age of your employees? In the
accounting profession, there are oodles of employees inches away from
retirement, and frantic leaders trying to figure out how to replace
them. If you’re facing a ‘cliff’ – a point when you’ll have more folks
retiring than being hired to replace them, it’s time to think about the
future. If you’re facing a future with fewer workers, you can:
- Import talent from other countries (nurses are imported from Indonesia);
- Export jobs to other countries (call centers in India);
- Automate (replace people with robots or computers);
- Keep retiring talent longer (AARP has a Best Places to Work list for its members);
- Eliminate some of your product and service offerings; and/or
- Become a great place to work for the next generation.
For more information about the conference, please go here.
