{"id":88105,"date":"2017-08-03T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=88105"},"modified":"2017-08-02T22:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T02:50:01","slug":"millennial-job-switchers-drawn-to-tech-industry","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/millennial-job-switchers-drawn-to-tech-industry","title":{"rendered":"Millennial Job Switchers Drawn to Tech Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being branded as a millennial can come with an assumed set of values that create an undesirable identity and have the generational cohort frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>But what many in the under-30 group offer is\u00a0a digital savviness and a desire to grasp technical skills that has them jumping jobs\u2014even if\u00a0it means straying away from a\u00a0planned career path.<\/p>\n<p>Newly released <a href=\"https:\/\/business.linkedin.com\/talent-solutions\/blog\/trends-and-research\/2017\/top-industries-gaining-and-losing-millennials\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn data<\/a> shows millennials are 50 per cent more likely to relocate for work and 16 per cent more likely to switch industries than non-millennials.<\/p>\n<p>The industry that\u2019s attracting the most millennial job switchers is technology and software with 9 per cent making the move to the growing field into roles like software development and sales.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows that millennials are more likely to have a skill set that\u2019s aligned with tech jobs, including social media marketing and knowledge of software applications.<\/p>\n<p>The tech industry is known for its millennial-packed workforce that comes with job perks, an innovative culture, and opportunities for development\u2014the latter being\u00a0the top reason millennials switch jobs, according to LinkedIn\u2019s data.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare and finance are also attracting millennial job switchers with 7 per cent respectively landing positions in each of those industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being branded as a millennial can come with an assumed set of values that create an undesirable identity and have the generational cohort frustrated. But what many in the under-30 group offer is\u00a0a digital savviness and a desire to grasp technical skills that has them jumping jobs\u2014even if\u00a0it means straying away from a\u00a0planned career path. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76241,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[910,197,227,76],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-88105","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News","tag-job-data","tag-linkedin","tag-millennials","tag-workforce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/88105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/76241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/88105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88105"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=88105"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=88105"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=88105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}