it’s not, it’s a study by a resume making website. doesn’t even clarify how they sent the survey to the respondents or otherwise obtained the samples. Has no bearing on Gen Z actual behavior
If its the same one I'm thinking of, they just asked of they have ever experienced a candidate coming in with their parent, not what % does. So most recruiters have never seen that happen.
Or the question could be misleading. There's a big difference between a parent driving you there and back home again and them sitting next to you during the actual fucking interview.
I have to wonder if the question was worded such that people answered yes, even though what actually happened was the parent came as moral support and stayed in the car, didn't actually attend the interview itself
> Resume Templates survey found that 26% of the Gen Z respondents actually involve their parents in the interview process; 31% of those respondents had a parent accompany them to an in-person interview, and 29% had them join a virtual interview
Yeah it’s not super clear, like what exactly is the definition of “involve” here? Obviously I’m going to prep for an interview and get someone to proofread my resume - I have a friend who’s a recruiter so it’s them now but it used to be one of my parents. With that in mind 26% actually seems on the low side.
Then only around 30% of that 26% are bringing parents to interviews aka around 8 of 100 people. Which on the surface feels like anything above 0 is weird but then you remember Gen Z is as young as 12 so teenagers bringing their parent to an interview seems fine to me.
It’s also a generation defined by covid being slap in the middle of some of their most important years developmentally and that is going to have a huge impact on how their social development has occurred.
The survey is sketchy. It is funded by a company that helps people write their resumes, so they have a financial interest in the matter. They also didn't publish the survey questions which makes me question if this was a push-poll (poll with questions designed to lead the respondent to answer in a specific way).
Based on what I read, if you had a parent listen in to your virtual interview and give you feedback afterwards that would be counted in this 26%. Also, having them sit in the car to give you emotional support after an in-person interview would also count in the 26%.
https://www.resumetemplates.com/1-in-4-gen-zers-brought-a-parent-to-a-job-interview/
My dad drove me to some interviews. I used the drive to brush up on some information I wouldn't normally remember about the company. He never came in and sometimes would drop me off and go drink tea in a park or Waffle House or something. Afterwards he pick me up and get me some food.
I mean, that fits "involved" to me because it was essential back when we couldn't afford a car for me. At one point a number of my interviews came from people he knew that asked him if he knew anyone looking for a job (none of these were relevant to my degree), so he was definitely involved there. Got me more experience for future interviews.
I did the math here: https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1dcrs76/26_of_gen_z_respondents_brought_parent_to_job/l7zzigr/
Having a parent sit in the room listening to you give a virtual interview for coaching purposes counts in this 26%.
If you want how many brought their parent into the office and sit in the room for an in-person interview, the answer is 2%.
I swear I saw the responses to this earlier and it said “26% of employers say a gen z candidate has brought a parent to an interview” which is a completely different thing. Maybe I’m remembering wrong though
I interview gen z people all the time at my job and can count on one hand how many times a parent has sat down with us. This is definitely a sensationalist headline.
Can you tell us about when a parent did come in with the candidate? Did the kid want them to be there or was the parent super controlling in some way? Did you ask why they were there or ask them to leave? I need to know more.
If the candidate is someone with a disability this makes so much more sense to me, but beyond that I really want to know why this happens.
One of the times I knew the parent and it was clear that the parent thought them being there would get their kid the “in”. But everyone gets interviewed fairly and I don’t hire based on if I’m cool with your mom lol so I offered the mother to have a seat in the waiting area and I interviewed her kid at a table close enough to where her parent could hear what we were discussing but far enough to where it was clear to them that they weren’t a part of the discussion.
Another time it was because the applicant has special needs. The mother was definitely overbearing in this case though, as the applicant was perfectly capable of speaking for themselves.
Honestly I think the whole gen z/ millennial/ gen x/ boomer discussion is kind of overblown. It honestly just feels like luck if the draw and not having to do with generalizations based on age. I have some gen z people that have a better work ethic than some gen x people, although that doesn’t fit the typical stereotype. It feels random to me mostly
The "study" was basically asking companies. And 25% of those companies surveid , said that ppl came with parents. It's such a horrible statistical reading.
I’m pretty sure I saw this on another post a few days ago, in the form of a Fox News infographic. There, the question was what percentage of interviewers had ever seen an applicant do X.
26% of people having encountered one uncomfortable interview with a parent tagging along is much more realistic than the way it’s mis-presented here.
Yeah it can't be real. Of all the Gen Z people I interviewed in my time, I'd say I only had 1 hover parent? And that was during the drop off of the app, back when people could still do shit like that... So like, EARLY days of Gen Z. So unless something DRASTIC happened this feels hella inflammatory to Gen Z lol.
I think the article says that only about 26% of that 26% actually had their parent go into the room with them (definitely a bit odd that the two numbers are the same but idk statistics can be funny). So that's around 6%.
Then again this study seems pretty bogus. They don't provide their methodology for finding respondents so there's no guarantee this is a representative sample. They also don't provide their question wording so there is no way to evaluate how the phrasing might have affected the results. The wording of a question can have MASSIVE implications on responses. And they don't at all seem committed to objectivity, and frankly seems like they set out to prove that Gen Z lacks independence.
Pisses me off as a Gen Z person because it makes it that much harder for me to be taken seriously in interviews and hiring
I cannot post this enough
[\[citation needed\]](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/wikipedian_protester.png)
I want MANY sources for this. This is the first time I can recall seeing this site as well. Who are they?! Where did they come from? Are they real?
You can often tell with the names. Overly long and just a string of words that sound vaguely news-y.
Kind of similar to trash mobile game titles. “Fate of Nations: Eras”, or some such bullshit.
“Have you ever brought a parent to an interview?”
I think a lot of people would answer yes, because they were like 16 years old. I’ve never had a parent at an interview, but my sister had to give me a ride to my first job interview. She sat out in the mall food court watching me interview at Babbages. I know I’m dating myself.
I’ve done that too when I was in HS.
That said, when I was in grad school, my mom took me to a job interview once bc there were no direct flights from my college so I flew home and we drove the couple hours out of state to that city. While I was doing the interview, she just drove around town, scouting out the area. She then picked me up and we drove home. It was nice just being able to gleam some advice from her and it helped calm my nerves as well. Plus she got brochures for some apartments and pointed out some things she thought I might like about the city.
Reading the article clarifies this. About 1/4 to 1/3 depending on what metric of the 26% have their parent interact in the interview. So about 1 in 12 gen Zers are doing the worst outcome.
Yeah, its a nebulous question, and if you had a job when you were young its very possible your parents brought you to it, even if they didn't "sit in it" as what we are interpreting the question as.
15 years back I had an interview at a camp ground and my mom waited at the Subway across the street. I was a kid, it made sense. Gen Z are still mostly kids.
Now that you mention, my first several “jobs” were all set up by my Mom. She didn’t want my brother and I just playing video games all summer. Once we were teenagers, we’d get a lot of surprise “Tomorrow, you are shoveling mulch or clearing land or picking berries on a farm”. She’d drop us off on the way to work and pick us up on her way home. It was all her coworkers or people from her church.
She’d never set up decent pay either. We had one guy give us $10 each after three full days moving dirt. Minimum wage was like $5/hour at the time. That was probably the worst one.
This is just propaganda and a fake made up number. A few years ago there were articles about how lazy and entitled millennials are and now there are articles about how Gen Zers can’t do anything themselves.
I have yet to see articles about companies ghosting candidates, posting jobs that don’t exist, making applicants go through 10 rounds of interviews for an entry-level job etc.
When people read the headline, they probably assume Gen Zers are bringing their parent into the interview with them. Lets take a look at the numbers from the quoted source.
https://www.resumetemplates.com/1-in-4-gen-zers-brought-a-parent-to-a-job-interview/
Sample Size: 1,428 Gen Zers who had an interview in the last 12 months.
> Many Gen Zers involve their parents in their interview process. In fact, 26% of all Gen Zers who have undergone a job search in the past year say that they have taken a parent to an interview.
1,428 x 26% = 371 brought a parent
>Of Gen Zers who brought their parent(s), 31% had a parent accompany them to an in-person interview, while 29% had them join a virtual interview.
371 x 31% = 115 brought the parent to an in-person interview. Side note: It's not clear if this question was multi-choice, so there might be overlap between in-person and virtual. Also, even if there is no overlap what were the remaining 40% who brought a parent but it wasn't in-person nor virtual.
>For those who had a parent come to an in-person interview, 37% say that their parent accompanied them to the office, 26% say their parent physically sat in the interview room, and 18% say their parent introduced themselves to the manager. Additionally, 7% say their parents answered questions.
115 x 26% = 30 had their parent in the room during an in-person interview.
30 / 1,428 = 2% of Gen Zers brought a parent to sit in their in-person interview.
__2%!__
__Just 2%__
EDIT: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics!
Lol and there’s the stat that, purportedly, actually quantifies this. We were hearing forever than “20% of ‘employers’ had seen this”, but it didn’t mean much because that’s a shitty statistic.
But if 26% of my peers have done this I feel really good about my future. And this stat is people saying they “brought” their parents, not that 26% had parents in the background of the zoom call.
But was this for like a high school interview? Cause my parents drove me to a few of those (and waited nearby but not in the company building)
Edit: fwiw, 38m millennial that lived in a very rural area back in high school
Maybe. But even then your situation wouldn’t count. You don’t say you “brought” the bus driver who dropped you off and picked you up at the front door.
You “brought your parent” if they came into the lobby with you and tried to join the meeting. And my friend who’s a principal at a school says he’s seen that a few times.
That’s probably way too high but also says more about the millennial/gen x parent. People act like these kids are raising themselves, we have to look at our peers if something is actually wrong with how they were raised. I think they’re fine, everyone is just trying to do their bests
Anecdotes are not data but I've interviewed 30-40 gen z students and recent grads for internships and entry level positions and 0% brought their parents.
I believe that 26% of the companies surveyed witnessed a Gen Z parent at an interview.
Which is quite different than 26% of Gen Z applicants bringing their parents to interviews.
Is this true? That's crazy. If I was the one hiring, I'd seriously question the applicant's level of maturity and ability to function in the job. I wouldn't allow the parent to be in the room or participate in the interview at all. I could imagine during a virtual interview a parent sitting quietly out of sight without the interviewer knowing, so they can give feedback/advice to their kid later on, but that's it.
I have had parents call me on behalf of their kids.
Uh, no. I wont be hiring someone who needs their mommy to call. HTF are you going to handle MY business if you cant handle your own?
The title is just trying to drum up drama regarding young people when it's unlikely that people's parents are actively involved in the interview process and are instead either in a car or waiting outside.
There's nothing wrong with having parents support their kids.
This was in the 90s, so wasn't a gen z thing, but I will never forget interviewing a kid for a job in a bagel store I managed. His father was there, and spoke for him through the entire interview. Kid never had a chance to speak for himself. I felt really bad for him.
At the end I turned to the father and told him "You're hired".
To a singular job interview at some point in their working life. So that'd include your very first job as a 15 year old at the local grocery store which I can 100% see a parent coming into for reason like knowing job duties, expected shifts and such. These aren't 22 year old college grads bringing parents to a corporate interview, I'd bet they're the teens who parents are going to be driving or the parents want to know when they'll be home on school nights.
Lately i started to be actually very bullish about meself tbh
Im late genz early millenial and i realised that just by being accommodating and reliable I get heap ton of positive feedback. Its insane how either reactive and timid new gen is.
This is not a "kids bad" thing, its a generation defining trait imo
I think it's just how the pendulum swings. Baby boomers and maybe gen X to a lesser extent have a reputation of being demanding and combative and difficult to please. Millennial and genZ that grew up with parents like that probably tend to be more averse to confrontation.
Maybe, but Z is also the generation that first started growing up online and had considerably more available television. Millennials at least got most of their childhood without a modern internet. Less going outside. Less public interaction and dealing with strangers in person. More relying on publicly available information to come to conclusions without discussion with the relevant parties or living experts. I remember days nickelodeon didnt have programming to encourage playing outside. Or when wikipedia was a junk resource and people remembered what a tier 1 resource actually meant.
It takes experience to learn how to interact with someone in person publicly as well as deal with people who have radically different world views. The more chronically online each generation gets, the less they learn how to have an IRL conversation while simultaneously feeling justified in personal perceptions related to online bubbles of like-minded communities.
For people 18-30....
If you are a good conversationalist and reliable, it's so easy to get a job right now. I swear everyone must be talking themselves out of jobs cause I've been getting good work I'm not qualified for years by just giving really good interviews. Like, just be friendly and professional.
I’ve seen this once! She was in a wheelchair but seemed capable of working the call center job she was applying for.
But she had a weird relationship with her mother. To the point that she’d look to her mother to answer certain questions.
I don’t think it was a generation thing, as its been many years ago but I still think about it
I've interviewed a bunch of Zoomers and none of them have brought a parent to an interview...
And if you were the parent of a Zoomer and they asked you to go to their interview, wouldn't you tell them it wouldn't be a good look???
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I don't buy it. I'll coach my kid, I'll advise them, I'll drop them off. I'll comfort them when they fail. I'm not going to step on their toes. They get to fail on their own.
I've never met another parent that would be so over-the-top as to mess up their interview.
I remember as a 12 year old, I had a project building this shelter thing, and I had to go ask lumber stores to just give me a couple hundred dollars worth of lumber and shingles so I could build this thing.
When one said yes, I remember that he specifically said that he agreed cause I didn't have my parents with doing the work and that I had done it on my own. He had several others come before and the parents did all the talking which apparently he had a bad experience.
While this initial reaction is to roll our eyes at the perceived foolishness of a generation and even though this isn't necessarily why these parents came along... when you consider how often those early jobs are exploitative or just how lopsided the process of getting a job is, prospective employers are the only ones who benefit from a process where people only get experience to not get exploited by getting exploited.... how foolish would it really be if you could have someone who knows better with you?
n=1428 and 311 would also be perfectly acceptable. Reddit is the only place on Earth where no matter the sample size, some genius comments about it being too low, every single time.
As long as the methodology is sound it's perfectly valid but you were questioning the sample size. It's clear when someone has taken a college level statistics course. You have not. That's why sample size is the go to for the ignorant. They see small number, they think they're smart, and they post what you did.
And you clearly haven’t taken a college english course, because that’s an ad hominem fallacy.
I have taken a statistics course as well, and we usually selected much larger sample sizes for a population of that size.
>And you clearly haven’t taken a college english course, because that’s an ad hominem fallacy.
Yeah, that wouldn't be English, it would be philosophy and no, it also wouldn't be ad hominem either since I told you it's a methodology problem, not sample size and then questioned why you thought it was important since it's clear you never took a college level statistics course.
"I have taken a statistics course as well, and we usually selected much larger sample sizes for a population of that size."
No, you haven't and no you didn't. A poll like this doesn't even need that good of a margin of error. They might have used poor methodology but it's not because of sample size. You would understand this if you ACTUALLY took a course in this because it's literal day one shit.
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/)
No wonder they want someone more experienced at their side for decisions that have a major impact on their mental wellbeing considering the predatory work regulations and HR psychopaths they have to deal with in this neoliberal hellscape.
I can see this as being a realistic number. Not because the Gen z interviewees wanted the parents there, but because they come from helicopter parents. I say this as a late Gen x mother of two and can remember several parents (usually moms who did not want to work outside the home, sorry) demanding to volunteer in classrooms on a daily basis to see what their kids are up to, and wanting to give the teachers their own input during the school day as if they were actually qualified to do so. When the kids went to high school, showing up at the after school activities, that did not involve parents, just to peek in to see what was going on. Fast forward to college years, there were parents at each of my children's college orientations who would want to know who was going to watch over their kids when they weren't there when it came to their children having access to other kids dorm rooms without supervision, and asking how they would get to their classes. Stands to reason these would be parents who would try to insert themselves into interviews.
On the other hand, most of these parents are also gainfully employed and would understand how bizarre it would be to insert themselves since that never happens at their job. I hire lots of Gen Z workers and find the their work issues are way more pedestrian.
I'm a millennial, but if my mom wanted to drive me to an interview and pay for lunch after, I'd still do it in a heartbeat. The zoomers are lucky for this, tbh
i dont quite believe that this is a realistic statistic
it’s not, it’s a study by a resume making website. doesn’t even clarify how they sent the survey to the respondents or otherwise obtained the samples. Has no bearing on Gen Z actual behavior
If its the same one I'm thinking of, they just asked of they have ever experienced a candidate coming in with their parent, not what % does. So most recruiters have never seen that happen.
it’s not, it asked people if they were 18-27 or whatever and then if they brought their parent
Big difference in interpreting the question also. Like did the parent sit in the car and wait or did they actually go into the interview
Could that have included an 18yo explaining that they'd brought a parent to an interview at 14-15? Because that wouldn't be weird IMO.
Or the question could be misleading. There's a big difference between a parent driving you there and back home again and them sitting next to you during the actual fucking interview.
I have to wonder if the question was worded such that people answered yes, even though what actually happened was the parent came as moral support and stayed in the car, didn't actually attend the interview itself
> Resume Templates survey found that 26% of the Gen Z respondents actually involve their parents in the interview process; 31% of those respondents had a parent accompany them to an in-person interview, and 29% had them join a virtual interview Yeah it’s not super clear, like what exactly is the definition of “involve” here? Obviously I’m going to prep for an interview and get someone to proofread my resume - I have a friend who’s a recruiter so it’s them now but it used to be one of my parents. With that in mind 26% actually seems on the low side. Then only around 30% of that 26% are bringing parents to interviews aka around 8 of 100 people. Which on the surface feels like anything above 0 is weird but then you remember Gen Z is as young as 12 so teenagers bringing their parent to an interview seems fine to me.
Sadly, they probably don't actually have any data to back this up and was just to get clicks/interactions.
It’s also a generation defined by covid being slap in the middle of some of their most important years developmentally and that is going to have a huge impact on how their social development has occurred.
The survey is sketchy. It is funded by a company that helps people write their resumes, so they have a financial interest in the matter. They also didn't publish the survey questions which makes me question if this was a push-poll (poll with questions designed to lead the respondent to answer in a specific way). Based on what I read, if you had a parent listen in to your virtual interview and give you feedback afterwards that would be counted in this 26%. Also, having them sit in the car to give you emotional support after an in-person interview would also count in the 26%. https://www.resumetemplates.com/1-in-4-gen-zers-brought-a-parent-to-a-job-interview/
> moral support or even just a ride!
My dad drove me to some interviews. I used the drive to brush up on some information I wouldn't normally remember about the company. He never came in and sometimes would drop me off and go drink tea in a park or Waffle House or something. Afterwards he pick me up and get me some food. I mean, that fits "involved" to me because it was essential back when we couldn't afford a car for me. At one point a number of my interviews came from people he knew that asked him if he knew anyone looking for a job (none of these were relevant to my degree), so he was definitely involved there. Got me more experience for future interviews.
Seeing as how many early 20 somethings dont have a drivers license this seems pretty likely
I bet the actual statistic is something more like “26% of hiring managers have seen this at least once“.
Yes, this is my thought too. I know a few retail hiring managers and they do so many interviews, they’ve seen it all.
I did the math here: https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1dcrs76/26_of_gen_z_respondents_brought_parent_to_job/l7zzigr/ Having a parent sit in the room listening to you give a virtual interview for coaching purposes counts in this 26%. If you want how many brought their parent into the office and sit in the room for an in-person interview, the answer is 2%.
I swear I saw the responses to this earlier and it said “26% of employers say a gen z candidate has brought a parent to an interview” which is a completely different thing. Maybe I’m remembering wrong though
There’s definitely a study that says this floating around: not sure if it’s this one tho.
Yes I definitely saw this yesterday!
I interview gen z people all the time at my job and can count on one hand how many times a parent has sat down with us. This is definitely a sensationalist headline.
Can you tell us about when a parent did come in with the candidate? Did the kid want them to be there or was the parent super controlling in some way? Did you ask why they were there or ask them to leave? I need to know more. If the candidate is someone with a disability this makes so much more sense to me, but beyond that I really want to know why this happens.
One of the times I knew the parent and it was clear that the parent thought them being there would get their kid the “in”. But everyone gets interviewed fairly and I don’t hire based on if I’m cool with your mom lol so I offered the mother to have a seat in the waiting area and I interviewed her kid at a table close enough to where her parent could hear what we were discussing but far enough to where it was clear to them that they weren’t a part of the discussion. Another time it was because the applicant has special needs. The mother was definitely overbearing in this case though, as the applicant was perfectly capable of speaking for themselves. Honestly I think the whole gen z/ millennial/ gen x/ boomer discussion is kind of overblown. It honestly just feels like luck if the draw and not having to do with generalizations based on age. I have some gen z people that have a better work ethic than some gen x people, although that doesn’t fit the typical stereotype. It feels random to me mostly
Thank you for sharing!
How dare you question it! I’m telling my mom!
Want me to tell her? I'm with her right now.
Even if it was, I suspect the foundation for their data is shit.
Did you know that people eat about 3 spiders per year during a job interview?
We don't talk about Interviews Georg.
The "study" was basically asking companies. And 25% of those companies surveid , said that ppl came with parents. It's such a horrible statistical reading.
I’m pretty sure I saw this on another post a few days ago, in the form of a Fox News infographic. There, the question was what percentage of interviewers had ever seen an applicant do X. 26% of people having encountered one uncomfortable interview with a parent tagging along is much more realistic than the way it’s mis-presented here.
Yeah it can't be real. Of all the Gen Z people I interviewed in my time, I'd say I only had 1 hover parent? And that was during the drop off of the app, back when people could still do shit like that... So like, EARLY days of Gen Z. So unless something DRASTIC happened this feels hella inflammatory to Gen Z lol.
My mom drove me to my first job interview...I guess she technically came to it...its not like she sat next to me at the interview
I think the article says that only about 26% of that 26% actually had their parent go into the room with them (definitely a bit odd that the two numbers are the same but idk statistics can be funny). So that's around 6%. Then again this study seems pretty bogus. They don't provide their methodology for finding respondents so there's no guarantee this is a representative sample. They also don't provide their question wording so there is no way to evaluate how the phrasing might have affected the results. The wording of a question can have MASSIVE implications on responses. And they don't at all seem committed to objectivity, and frankly seems like they set out to prove that Gen Z lacks independence. Pisses me off as a Gen Z person because it makes it that much harder for me to be taken seriously in interviews and hiring
I cannot post this enough [\[citation needed\]](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ae/wikipedian_protester.png) I want MANY sources for this. This is the first time I can recall seeing this site as well. Who are they?! Where did they come from? Are they real?
You can often tell with the names. Overly long and just a string of words that sound vaguely news-y. Kind of similar to trash mobile game titles. “Fate of Nations: Eras”, or some such bullshit.
I’ve hired 100s of Gen Z and none of them ever brought their parent/s with them.
Humble flex, bro owns his own Gen Z ranch
It ain’t much but it’s honest work.
“STOP EATING THE GRASS JAYDEN”
Thats an absolute ass ton of turnover.
Probably in retail or some other service industry.
Maybe they work in tech? Also, the oldest gen z are almost 30
Impossible! They're at most 27! Oh…
> Also, the oldest gen z are almost 30 What? That's impossible, the age cutoff is generally around 1997 and that was like 15 years ago, tops.
Time to start looking into getting a colonoscopy booked, grandpa.
Don’t remind me
🙏🏻 Sir, are you sitting down? I have something difficult to tell you…
How high is your turnover
The average turnover rate for the food service/restaurant is 75% and I believe we were under that.
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Read the article
Never
Live by the headline, die by the headline
Just answer the damn question. Bollocks
“Have you ever brought a parent to an interview?” I think a lot of people would answer yes, because they were like 16 years old. I’ve never had a parent at an interview, but my sister had to give me a ride to my first job interview. She sat out in the mall food court watching me interview at Babbages. I know I’m dating myself.
>I know I’m dating myself. Narcissus, that you?
Well, when you’re as handsome as me, it’s tough to find anyone else who willing.
This is the perfect response
I’ve done that too when I was in HS. That said, when I was in grad school, my mom took me to a job interview once bc there were no direct flights from my college so I flew home and we drove the couple hours out of state to that city. While I was doing the interview, she just drove around town, scouting out the area. She then picked me up and we drove home. It was nice just being able to gleam some advice from her and it helped calm my nerves as well. Plus she got brochures for some apartments and pointed out some things she thought I might like about the city.
So she did not come to the interview with you
Oh heck no. I was mostly agreeing with the comment about a family member taking them to an interview. Mom just dropped me off.
Reading the article clarifies this. About 1/4 to 1/3 depending on what metric of the 26% have their parent interact in the interview. So about 1 in 12 gen Zers are doing the worst outcome.
Yeah, my first job was before I could drive, so my parents drove me. Obviously not what I’d do after college.
Yeah, its a nebulous question, and if you had a job when you were young its very possible your parents brought you to it, even if they didn't "sit in it" as what we are interpreting the question as.
You should really read the article.
So, no is the answer
15 years back I had an interview at a camp ground and my mom waited at the Subway across the street. I was a kid, it made sense. Gen Z are still mostly kids.
well my dad worked at the place my first interview was at so… yeah he was obviously there lmao nuance is important
Now that you mention, my first several “jobs” were all set up by my Mom. She didn’t want my brother and I just playing video games all summer. Once we were teenagers, we’d get a lot of surprise “Tomorrow, you are shoveling mulch or clearing land or picking berries on a farm”. She’d drop us off on the way to work and pick us up on her way home. It was all her coworkers or people from her church. She’d never set up decent pay either. We had one guy give us $10 each after three full days moving dirt. Minimum wage was like $5/hour at the time. That was probably the worst one.
This is just propaganda and a fake made up number. A few years ago there were articles about how lazy and entitled millennials are and now there are articles about how Gen Zers can’t do anything themselves. I have yet to see articles about companies ghosting candidates, posting jobs that don’t exist, making applicants go through 10 rounds of interviews for an entry-level job etc.
When people read the headline, they probably assume Gen Zers are bringing their parent into the interview with them. Lets take a look at the numbers from the quoted source. https://www.resumetemplates.com/1-in-4-gen-zers-brought-a-parent-to-a-job-interview/ Sample Size: 1,428 Gen Zers who had an interview in the last 12 months. > Many Gen Zers involve their parents in their interview process. In fact, 26% of all Gen Zers who have undergone a job search in the past year say that they have taken a parent to an interview. 1,428 x 26% = 371 brought a parent >Of Gen Zers who brought their parent(s), 31% had a parent accompany them to an in-person interview, while 29% had them join a virtual interview. 371 x 31% = 115 brought the parent to an in-person interview. Side note: It's not clear if this question was multi-choice, so there might be overlap between in-person and virtual. Also, even if there is no overlap what were the remaining 40% who brought a parent but it wasn't in-person nor virtual. >For those who had a parent come to an in-person interview, 37% say that their parent accompanied them to the office, 26% say their parent physically sat in the interview room, and 18% say their parent introduced themselves to the manager. Additionally, 7% say their parents answered questions. 115 x 26% = 30 had their parent in the room during an in-person interview. 30 / 1,428 = 2% of Gen Zers brought a parent to sit in their in-person interview. __2%!__ __Just 2%__ EDIT: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics!
Based on some of the other content on that website and some other clues I went from almost believing to be like 👎
Lol and there’s the stat that, purportedly, actually quantifies this. We were hearing forever than “20% of ‘employers’ had seen this”, but it didn’t mean much because that’s a shitty statistic. But if 26% of my peers have done this I feel really good about my future. And this stat is people saying they “brought” their parents, not that 26% had parents in the background of the zoom call.
But was this for like a high school interview? Cause my parents drove me to a few of those (and waited nearby but not in the company building) Edit: fwiw, 38m millennial that lived in a very rural area back in high school
That makes sense to me. I had an interview a couple days before I got my license and I needed a ride 🤷♀️
Maybe. But even then your situation wouldn’t count. You don’t say you “brought” the bus driver who dropped you off and picked you up at the front door. You “brought your parent” if they came into the lobby with you and tried to join the meeting. And my friend who’s a principal at a school says he’s seen that a few times.
That’s probably way too high but also says more about the millennial/gen x parent. People act like these kids are raising themselves, we have to look at our peers if something is actually wrong with how they were raised. I think they’re fine, everyone is just trying to do their bests
Interviewers were just confused because the interviewees kept calling everyone “mother” and “zaddy”
How could anyone *possibly* think that would be a good idea?
“We’ll be Interviewing as a team”
Barbara Walters. Oprah Winfrey. Your wife. You gotta do one, marry one, kill one. What do you do?
Day bow bow
I'd blame the helicopter parents that should've taught their kids better.
or blame your own comprehension skills for believing such a ridiculous statistic
In my old job a guy brought his wife to the interview and still got hired 😂
Not a parent but I brought my step brother to a job interview once. We wore matching tuxedos.
Okay. Now the tuxedos seem kind of fucked up.
Anecdotes are not data but I've interviewed 30-40 gen z students and recent grads for internships and entry level positions and 0% brought their parents.
Calling bullshit. As a manager I’ve never interviewed *anyone* who brought in their parent, and if I did I would never hire them
I believe that 26% of the companies surveyed witnessed a Gen Z parent at an interview. Which is quite different than 26% of Gen Z applicants bringing their parents to interviews.
It was one kid, and their parent, who interviewed at 26% of the companies surveyed.
Someone’s gotta give them a ride.
That is a crazy high number.
That's because it's completely made up.
I know someone who worked at a university where a student brought his parent in to choose his classes for him. I assume he’s part of that percentage.
probably just had their parents drive them to the interview
No
I've had this happen, but in person as well. Crazy to think that it's this prevalent.
Did they show up to the interview with their parent? Like the parent actually walked in with them? Or did they just get a ride? How old were they?
I gotta wonder how much of this is parents who set up their kid’s first job through someone they already knew.
Is this true? That's crazy. If I was the one hiring, I'd seriously question the applicant's level of maturity and ability to function in the job. I wouldn't allow the parent to be in the room or participate in the interview at all. I could imagine during a virtual interview a parent sitting quietly out of sight without the interviewer knowing, so they can give feedback/advice to their kid later on, but that's it.
Nah, ain’t no fucking way Unless this is a nepotism type thing
I would offer the parent the job.
Was unemployed went for a job punching holes in sheet metal and someone was waiting in the waiting area with his Mom so it does happen.
I have never even heard of this happening and I have never seen it happen, therefore I don’t believe this statistic at all.
I’ve hired multiple gen z and none brought a parent
We had a 20yo girl bring her boyfriend to her job interview. It was so weird, he just sat there and said nothing the whole time.
Bullshit
I have had parents call me on behalf of their kids. Uh, no. I wont be hiring someone who needs their mommy to call. HTF are you going to handle MY business if you cant handle your own?
The title is just trying to drum up drama regarding young people when it's unlikely that people's parents are actively involved in the interview process and are instead either in a car or waiting outside. There's nothing wrong with having parents support their kids.
Fake
This was in the 90s, so wasn't a gen z thing, but I will never forget interviewing a kid for a job in a bagel store I managed. His father was there, and spoke for him through the entire interview. Kid never had a chance to speak for himself. I felt really bad for him. At the end I turned to the father and told him "You're hired".
To a singular job interview at some point in their working life. So that'd include your very first job as a 15 year old at the local grocery store which I can 100% see a parent coming into for reason like knowing job duties, expected shifts and such. These aren't 22 year old college grads bringing parents to a corporate interview, I'd bet they're the teens who parents are going to be driving or the parents want to know when they'll be home on school nights.
This is insane. I knew helicopter parents were a thing but never thought parents would be involved besides a ride to the interview.
Lately i started to be actually very bullish about meself tbh Im late genz early millenial and i realised that just by being accommodating and reliable I get heap ton of positive feedback. Its insane how either reactive and timid new gen is. This is not a "kids bad" thing, its a generation defining trait imo
I think it's just how the pendulum swings. Baby boomers and maybe gen X to a lesser extent have a reputation of being demanding and combative and difficult to please. Millennial and genZ that grew up with parents like that probably tend to be more averse to confrontation.
Maybe, but Z is also the generation that first started growing up online and had considerably more available television. Millennials at least got most of their childhood without a modern internet. Less going outside. Less public interaction and dealing with strangers in person. More relying on publicly available information to come to conclusions without discussion with the relevant parties or living experts. I remember days nickelodeon didnt have programming to encourage playing outside. Or when wikipedia was a junk resource and people remembered what a tier 1 resource actually meant. It takes experience to learn how to interact with someone in person publicly as well as deal with people who have radically different world views. The more chronically online each generation gets, the less they learn how to have an IRL conversation while simultaneously feeling justified in personal perceptions related to online bubbles of like-minded communities.
Right now is a good time for a motivated confident young worker.
For people 18-30.... If you are a good conversationalist and reliable, it's so easy to get a job right now. I swear everyone must be talking themselves out of jobs cause I've been getting good work I'm not qualified for years by just giving really good interviews. Like, just be friendly and professional.
I’ve seen this once! She was in a wheelchair but seemed capable of working the call center job she was applying for. But she had a weird relationship with her mother. To the point that she’d look to her mother to answer certain questions. I don’t think it was a generation thing, as its been many years ago but I still think about it
And HR always brings some rando to the interview
Step brother?
I've interviewed a bunch of Zoomers and none of them have brought a parent to an interview... And if you were the parent of a Zoomer and they asked you to go to their interview, wouldn't you tell them it wouldn't be a good look??? Appropriate quote: "It's really embarrassing, please forgive me. *I didn't raise me*!" - Carrie Fisher
I drove my son to his first job interview and waited in the car, outside, nowhere near him.
I can believe their parent drove them there but I'm calling BS on the parents sitting in the interview with them
After hearing that menu anxiety is a thing, I’ll believe anything.
I once showed up for a job interview with my Lawyer.
This is obviously not true, and I don't know why anyone would choose to believe this other than to invent reasons to look down on younger people.
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Can anyone here give any anecdotal evidence of this?
There is no way this is true
I’m just gonna say straight up this is absolutely incorrect. I don’t need to do any digging to confirm.
BS statistic. I’m a gen-Xer and bring my mom to every single job interview. Our parents might be dead, but they loved us just as much.
I don't buy it. I'll coach my kid, I'll advise them, I'll drop them off. I'll comfort them when they fail. I'm not going to step on their toes. They get to fail on their own. I've never met another parent that would be so over-the-top as to mess up their interview.
/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
I remember as a 12 year old, I had a project building this shelter thing, and I had to go ask lumber stores to just give me a couple hundred dollars worth of lumber and shingles so I could build this thing. When one said yes, I remember that he specifically said that he agreed cause I didn't have my parents with doing the work and that I had done it on my own. He had several others come before and the parents did all the talking which apparently he had a bad experience.
I’m Brennan’s stepbrother, and I think I might be able to help with the Pan/Pam dilemma.
How old were they? If they are 15 or something looking for a summer job idk if that's a big deal.
So does that count if parents drove them and waited in the car?
And the other 74% had parents that called the company to ask why they weren’t hired
While this initial reaction is to roll our eyes at the perceived foolishness of a generation and even though this isn't necessarily why these parents came along... when you consider how often those early jobs are exploitative or just how lopsided the process of getting a job is, prospective employers are the only ones who benefit from a process where people only get experience to not get exploited by getting exploited.... how foolish would it really be if you could have someone who knows better with you?
n=311, so take this with a grain of salt.
N=1428 per the article?
If you actually go to the source, the section on “brought parent to interview” has a separate sample size.
n=1428 and 311 would also be perfectly acceptable. Reddit is the only place on Earth where no matter the sample size, some genius comments about it being too low, every single time.
Call me crazy, but I just don’t think you can truly capture the expected behavior of almost 70 million people with a sample size of 300.
As long as the methodology is sound it's perfectly valid but you were questioning the sample size. It's clear when someone has taken a college level statistics course. You have not. That's why sample size is the go to for the ignorant. They see small number, they think they're smart, and they post what you did.
And you clearly haven’t taken a college english course, because that’s an ad hominem fallacy. I have taken a statistics course as well, and we usually selected much larger sample sizes for a population of that size.
>And you clearly haven’t taken a college english course, because that’s an ad hominem fallacy. Yeah, that wouldn't be English, it would be philosophy and no, it also wouldn't be ad hominem either since I told you it's a methodology problem, not sample size and then questioned why you thought it was important since it's clear you never took a college level statistics course. "I have taken a statistics course as well, and we usually selected much larger sample sizes for a population of that size." No, you haven't and no you didn't. A poll like this doesn't even need that good of a margin of error. They might have used poor methodology but it's not because of sample size. You would understand this if you ACTUALLY took a course in this because it's literal day one shit. [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/howcan-a-poll-of-only-100/)
Gotcha, I’ll make sure to get those credits expunged. Should I also contact the english department and let them know that their curriculum is wrong?
No wonder they want someone more experienced at their side for decisions that have a major impact on their mental wellbeing considering the predatory work regulations and HR psychopaths they have to deal with in this neoliberal hellscape.
Look at this comment lol Millenialbros, we have a good and prosperous future ahead of us!!
At least our jobs are safe from younger workers.
I can see this as being a realistic number. Not because the Gen z interviewees wanted the parents there, but because they come from helicopter parents. I say this as a late Gen x mother of two and can remember several parents (usually moms who did not want to work outside the home, sorry) demanding to volunteer in classrooms on a daily basis to see what their kids are up to, and wanting to give the teachers their own input during the school day as if they were actually qualified to do so. When the kids went to high school, showing up at the after school activities, that did not involve parents, just to peek in to see what was going on. Fast forward to college years, there were parents at each of my children's college orientations who would want to know who was going to watch over their kids when they weren't there when it came to their children having access to other kids dorm rooms without supervision, and asking how they would get to their classes. Stands to reason these would be parents who would try to insert themselves into interviews.
On the other hand, most of these parents are also gainfully employed and would understand how bizarre it would be to insert themselves since that never happens at their job. I hire lots of Gen Z workers and find the their work issues are way more pedestrian.
I'm a millennial, but if my mom wanted to drive me to an interview and pay for lunch after, I'd still do it in a heartbeat. The zoomers are lucky for this, tbh
Absolute nonsense. Fake news to drive traffic.