Recruiters shift focus from millennials as ‘Gen Z’ talent enter Singapore’s workforce

SINGAPORE (July 11): Generation Z – those born between 1997-2010, otherwise known as Gen Z – now make up 30% of Singapore’s resident population with the vast majority of them entering the local workforce.

This is according to recruiting experts Hays, whose latest edition of biannual publication Hays Journal suggests that this emerging generation of digital-native post-millennials will all the more need to have skills to meet employers’ demands, especially with the advent of automation in the workplace.

In a press release issued by Hays on Tuesday, Lynne Roeder, managing director of Hays Singapore, notes that Gen Z’s shared experience of growing up during the 2008 financial crisis, amid threats from global terrorism and political uncertainty in the Middle East, has made them “more self-aware, self-reliant and driven”.

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