Here’s a piece of good news. The group “Qvisory” understands the challenges facing young Americans — due to the rapidly changing nature of job ladders, so many of Gen Y will change careers many times during the course of our working years, and change jobs even more. During the course of that time, we’ll have to change our health care plan, retirement plan, and financial services to keep up with these job changes.
Qvisory’s role is to help young Americans have a plan to keep these pieces together. Baby boomers had it differently: the career ladder was intact for them, and many spent their entire working days at just one or maybe two companies. Gen Y’s career ladder will look more like the board game Chutes N Ladders, where you have to move to a different company to advance, and maybe take a step back in pay to get the health or retirement benefits you need.
Therefore, Gen Y will have to do a lot more resume writing, career monitoring, networking, and management of health and retirement than ever before. Enter Qvisory: its extensive list of bloggers offer advice to Gen Y’ers who are navigating through this maze, in addition to dealing with credit card debt, student loan debt, and the like.
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Eileen Quigley // July 24, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I run Qvisory and I wanted to thank you very much for your post and also to tell you that we just released a study that may be of interest to you and your readers that looks at the challenges young people are having economically: Young People: Living on the Edge http://qvisory.org/posts/living-on-the-edge-study
We polled young adults and parents and compared their answers, which may interest you as well in light of your 4/28 column in which you asked where young adults get their financial advice.
We are also working on offering exactly the financial advice and tools that your 4/28/08 post called for. We will let you know as we roll them out.
Thanks again for the mention.
Eileen Quigley