By Aoife McCrum, Director of Digital at SoolNua and Gráinne Ní Ghiollagáin, Business Development Manager at SoolNua – both co-council members at Meetings+Millennials The hiring process can be daunting and time consuming – shifting through CVs, sitting through endless interviews, salary negotiations, ensuring the correct fit and then once the individual is hired, the endless coaching and training that goes into that one individual to ensure they can thrive in that role – then perhaps after 6 months, you have a strong employee! But the process does not end here. According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Wor ..read more

By Jonathan Soon - Marketing & Communications Manager, Sarawak Convention Bureau CNBC reported that millennials have a 5-second attention span. A goldfish has 9. As offensive as it may sound, there is some truth in it. We are drawn by great headlines, but most of us would not actually follow through with the content. Even for this article alone - some of us may not finish reading it. And then those who do? They would likely speed read it without digesting the content, and the content would be forgotten in less than an hour. Why so? Because we are now living in a time where a gazillion mo ..read more

The ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter in association with Emirates are offering one lucky Millennial the opportunity to attend the ICCA World Congress in Dubai this November. The lucky winner will win a direct Emirates flight to Dubai and registration to the ICCA World Congress – worth over £1500!! To be in with a chance to win – The participant must be a millennial (born between 1982 and 1995)Must be attending ICCA World Congress as a First Time AttendeeMust work for a company who are members of ICCA UK&I ChapterMust have the support from their company to enterYou or your company must be wil ..read more

GUEST POST by Thomas Heiser,originally posted on his blog. Introduction Event organisers are super organised. It almost goes without saying. So deciding not to plan a third of my recent conference programme was a massive break from the norm. “Why would you do that?” I hear you cry! Because pulling together conference programmes is a guessing game. Of course we make (very) educated guesses, we know the industry trends, we make sure we have great speakers lined up, but: ultimately only the audience know what they really want to engage with. So at 2017.Open.coop we left roughly a third of our t ..read more

SustainabilityTHE buzz word for meetings and events in 2019. Every client I meet, every event I attend, every article I read...sustainability is at the forefront of every event planner, convention bureau and venue’s mind – How can we make our meetings greener? How can we reduce, reuse and recycle? How can we decrease our carbon footprint? All extremely relevant and important questions that need answers – but, I am not the one to answer these. I could have written an article highlighting what sustainable measures millennials are looking for at events, however just by googling ‘ The MICE Industr ..read more

With Stress Awareness Month upon us, it’s only natural that we explore the things that increase our stress levels. We believe it’s important make every effort to support those around us, check in with ourselves and become wary of how our daily lives induce stress.After reading a piece on The Guardian about why millennials are barely answering phones, Face for Business – a phone answering service based in Ormskirk decided to investigate further into the reasons why we’re anxious answering the telephone. Naturally it made sense to survey UK office workers who are mostly exposed to the telephone ..read more

There are generational differences between Millennials, Gen Z and Baby-Boomers in the workplace. They all have different views and priorities when it comes to work/life balance and different personal expectations of what a working life looks like.Gone are the days where it's the norm to simply hang on to a well-paid job because... well because you are settled. Millennials search for the job that best fits their living situation, personal life, lifestyle, personal interests and more.There are 4 main reasons why Millennial are known to be 'job-hoppers':1/ Sense of PurposeMillennials are a genera ..read more

Online and digital communication is becoming more and more popular, especially between Millennial teams. Companies and their teams are opting to use choosing platforms such as Slack and Asana to communicate cross teams and with their clients. These platforms enable remote working and bridge gaps between offices or teams operating in different time zones and continents.Slack is a collaboration hub for work, no matter what work you do. It's a place where conversations happen, decisions are made, and information is always at your fingertips.With Slack, your team is better connected.Slack offers n ..read more