Gen Z Doesn’t Job Hunt Alone—Here’s How Parents Are Getting Involved

New survey data confirms Mom and Dad are taking an active role in Gen-Z’s job searches, including showing up to interviews with thier children.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

Gen-Z employees are often encumbered with a generalized cohort reputation of wanting to abide only by their own rules, habits, and expectations while at work — to the frequent annoyance of older coworkers and employers. New survey data shows many members of the workforce’s youngest generation sometimes start exhibiting these traits even before they’ve set foot in the workplace, most notably by enlisting their parents to help them land the jobs that get them through that door.

As the numbers of Gen-Zers entering the workforce grow, many young employees have drawn criticism for wanting to impose their own ideas on how dress, communicate, interact, take orders, and at times simply stare at nonplussed older colleagues. Now, a new survey indicates many people born between 1997 and 2012 also buck professional conventions........

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