I’ve hired several post millennial Americans (those currently in college or recently graduated) and they’ve generally been decent employees. I do live in a part of the country where Americans do the work Americans are no longer doing though. Also, as part of the interview I walk them out to their car at the end to surreptitiously take notice of their bumper stickers.
Hmmm. Good idea, can I steal it?
Usually, for senior-level positions, I make it a point to take the candidate out to lunch - can tell a lot about a person from that.
Your idea would work well, especially for entry-level candidates. I talk to a lot more of those.....
I think some kids are less secure than maybe the kids in older generations, but then again they have cause to be. Look at the divorce and never married rate amongst their parents.
I think the older one gets the more we seem to gloss over the weirdness that our own generation had at the same age.
College kids always think they have re-invented the wheel and most of us wonder why we ever taught the little monsters to talk.
10 years from now these millenials will have their own little delicate flowers to deal with and we can all have a good laugh.
As they say "Lighten up Francis".