Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year — the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks. Gen Zs are about to hit the streets looking for work in a labor market that’s tighter than it’s been in decades. And employers are planning on hiring about 17 percent more new graduates for jobs in the U. S. this year than last, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.
现在Z一代的成员今年春天就要毕业了，最普遍接受的定义是，这一代人出生在1995年之后，不出一年，最近几周关注度稳步上升。Z一代即将走上街头，在一个比几十年来更为紧张的劳动力市场上寻找工作。美国全国大学与雇主协会的一项调查显示，今年美国雇主计划招聘的应届毕业生比去年多17%。每个人都想知道，这些即将工作的人与之前的人有何不同。
If “entitled” is the most common adjective, fairly or not, applied to Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1995), the catchwords for Generation Z are practical and cautious. According to the career counselors and expert who study them, Generation Zs are clear-eyed, economic pragmatists. Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like. They were impressionable kids during the crash of 2008, when many of their parents lost their jobs or their life savings or both. They aren’t interested in taking any chances. The booming economy seems to have done little to assuage this underlying generational sense of anxious urgency, especially for those who have college debt. College loan balances in the U. S. now stand at a record $1.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve.
如果说“有资格”是最常见的形容词，不管是否公平，用在千禧一代（那些出生于1981年至1995年之间的人）身上，Z一代的口号是实用和谨慎的。根据职业咨询师和研究专家的说法，Z一代是头脑清醒的经济实用主义者。尽管在过去的50年里，Z一代毕业于经济最好的时候，但他知道经济崩溃是什么样子的。在2008年金融危机期间，他们都是易受影响的孩子，当时他们的父母中有许多人失业或失去了毕生积蓄，或两者兼而有之。他们对冒险不感兴趣。蓬勃发展的经济似乎并没有缓解这一代人潜在的紧迫感，尤其是那些有大学债务的人。根据美联储的数据，美国大学贷款余额目前达到创纪录的1.5万亿美元。
One survey from Accenture found that 88 percent of graduating seniors this year chose their major with a job in mind. In a 2019 survey of University of Georgia students, meanwhile, the career office found the most desirable trait in a future employer was the ability to offer secure employment (followed by professional development and training, and then inspiring purpose). Job security or stability was the second most important career goal (work-life balance was number one), followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the great good.
埃森哲的一项调查发现，今年88%的高年级毕业生在选择专业时都会考虑到工作。与此同时，在2019年对乔治亚大学学生的调查中，职业办公室发现，未来雇主最理想的特质是能够提供有保障的就业机会（其次是职业发展和培训，然后是鼓舞人心的目标）。工作安全或稳定是第二重要的职业目标（工作与生活的平衡是第一位的），其次是对某个事业的奉献感或对为伟大的利益服务感到高兴。
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