Besides experience, the youth face many challenges when entering the workplace. One of which is the ability to have a relationship with coworkers, especially bosses, that are of a different generation. One reason it is difficult is because the culture of today's youth is much different than the culture of older generations. Because of this, young employees and bosses can come off as rude and disrespectful to each other. The following link is to an article that discusses how young potential employees can fix this problem.
http://growingleaders.com/blog/first-soft-skill-develop-students/
This article suggests that the youth lacks social intelligence. Social intelligence is the ability for a person to empathizes with someone and build a connection with them, despite any differences. Social intelligence is important in the workplace because it allows to work to be done between employees despite differences, such as age. This can keep employees and bosses from coming off as rude to each other. Social intelligence also can create a good first impression to a boss for applicants and beginning employees.
Something that I noticed about this article is that it classifies all of the youth into one group. It assumes that all youth is the same, and it points out only negative characteristics about the youth. It also places the blame for the disrespect in the workplace completely on young employees, when bosses are also to blame.
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