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Re:Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is a... by sangnoir on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:48PM (#35445683)
> It originally meant people graduating college around 2000:

This is not how generational cohorts work. AFAIK, what counts as a generation can refer to people born over from 10, and up to 33 year period depending on who you ask.

"Millennial" is not precise term, it simply refers to people younger than Gen X and older than Gen Z.

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Re:Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is a... by ShadowBanThis01 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:41PM (#35447753)
Eh, I remember when this was coined, and it was specifically about people graduating college at the millennium. Granted, I thought then (and still think) this was a weird benchmark to use. But the whole thing is dumb.
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Re:Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is a... by sangnoir on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:21AM (#35450520)
You may be misremembering, or perhaps you meant graduating high school? People who graduatedcollege in 2000 are not considered to be millennials as they were been born in 1978 or 1979.
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Re:Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is a... by ShadowBanThis01 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:26PM (#35459199)
Hmm, I'm pretty sure it was college, because the topic of conversation at the time was the job market facing these new graduates and how they were the first cohort that could not necessarily expect to "do better" than their parents.
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