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The Next Generation of Professional Mariners

The Millennials

A look at MillennialsThrough a Mariner’s

Eye

The Millennials

Why so Important Who are they? What are our similarities? What are our differences? How do we recruit and retain them as

Professional Mariners?

Why so important?

PERFECT PERSONNEL STORM

Perfect Storm Factors

Demographic Hole New Regulations Workboat Business Growth Experienced based Competency Weathered the Personnel Shortage of

but now Out of Gas

Who are they?

A person born in the 1980s or 1990s, especially in the U.S.

Largest generation in the United States

1/3 of the total population in 2013

Shaped by technology

Who are they?

Value community, family, and creativity in their work.

Millennial generation will be dominant demographic for many years.

How to attract Millennials

Highlight the similarities Understand the differences Adapt

Similarities

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men;...”

~HERMAN MELVILLE

Similarities

Passion for the Sea Mission Oriented Separation of Work and Home Mind/Body Balance Being part of a Tribe

Understand the Differences

Workplace Values Community Family Creativity Tolerance

Differences

7% Hardworking & dedicated

26% Creative

18% Confident

(Mis?)Interpretations

= Doesn’t know how to work

= Distractible and Unfocussed

= ArrogantOverconfident

Reconcile the Differences

Work Ethic Creativity Technology Learning style Diversity

Work Ethic/Creativity

Work Ethic/Creativity

Technology

Leverage Technology Recognize the Pitfalls Integrate Technology

Learning the Art

– Instant access to knowledge– Training entitlement– Visual and active versus verbal and passive– Entitled to knowledge vs. deserving knowledge– Deserve a mentor vs. earn a mentor

Diversity

Diversity

“If you don’t want to hire me because of my tattoos I don’t want to work for your company”

Translation- I don’t want to work for a company that doesn’t embrace diversity

Strategies for the Future

Stop looking for clones of ourselves

Strategies for the Future

Get over the minor differences! Reconcile Adapt Make the work place attractive Empower Work/Life Balance

Make the Workplace Attractive

Schedule Connectivity Technology Training Work perks=life values Tolerate the New Tribe Transferable Credibility

Maritime and MillennialsNavigating to the future

Maritime and MillennialsNavigating to the future

The Millennials are the future Professional Mariner. We need them and they need us. We have knowledge, experience and seagoing wisdom. They have the numbers and talent. We are of different generations and culture but if we reconcile our differences, recognize our mutual passion for working at sea, make the workplace more attractive and find ways to unite the creativity, technological savvy of the Millennials with the experience and expertise of senior mariners we will have a powerful solution.