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November 30, 2015 at 02:13 PM
Take it from today’s young hipsters: Retail, construction and manufacturing are way not cool. And the same goes for insurance.
That’s what research into millennial industry preferences released by The Hartford revealed. And at least based upon the results of the company’s 2015 Millennial Leadership Survey, there’s almost no chance those industries will attract millennials any time soon.
Only 7 percent of those millennials who participated in the study said they were interested in careers in those three industries. Other industries are also failing to attract these young leaders of the future, including insurance (4 percent) and wholesaling and utilities (3 percent each).
That, say the study’s authors, is a leadership disaster waiting to happen.
“The results reveal a quiet crisis — a generation of leaders who aren’t interested in many businesses that drive our nation’s economy,” said The Hartford’s Millennial Workplace Expert Lindsey Pollak. “Millennials can help close this leadership gap by widening their career searches and exploring jobs, salaries and benefits before writing off whole sectors of the U.S. job market.”
