What different generations look for in a job

Where job seekers sit on the generational continuum can affect how they make their decision to take or reject a position or affect their decision to remain with their current employer.

Dave Sanford (right), the executive vice president of client services at the Winter, Wyman Companies, a staffing firm based in Waltham, offers the following key criteria that appeals to employees in different generations. Here is a look at what baby boomers (born 1946-1964), Generation Xers (born 1964-1979), and Millennials (born 1980 or later) value in their careers and employers.
Where job seekers sit on the generational continuum can affect how they make their decision to take or reject a position or affect their decision to remain with their current employer. Dave Sanford (right), the executive vice president of client services at the Winter, Wyman Companies , a staffing firm based in Waltham, offers the following key criteria that appeals to employees in different generations. Here is a look at what baby boomers (born 1946-1964), Generation Xers (born 1964-1979), and Millennials (born 1980 or later) value in their careers and employers.