Recruiting and Retaining Gen Z

Generation Z (years of birth 1997 to 2012) is the most significant generational shift so far, reshaping the workplace with their unique perspectives, values, and expectations. There are new challenges in supporting today’s cohorts of young teachers.

Recruitment and retention have been key challenges in the profession for many years. There are now signs that the crisis may be diminishing. This does not mean that every school will be able to attract, and keep, the best of the youngest generation in the workplace.

For those they do recruit, a generational disconnect can open up as motivation and engagement become issues which hold organisations back. This has a further impact on succession planning which has become as big an issue as recruitment or retention for some.

Gen Z’s aspirations and motivations are often misunderstood. Organisations often conclude they have to dilute their expectations of the calibre they can attract when the opposite is true.

This session will be led by Alex Atherton, former secondary school headteacher and author of The Snowflake Myth: Explaining Gen Z in the workplace and beyond.