CRITERIA IN JOB SELECTION OF GENERATION Y WHO GRADUATED FROM BACHELOR’S DEGREE OF INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE IN BANGKOK IN THE AEC ERA

Abstract

Generation Y are becoming the major workforce in today business market. However, with some external environments, like technology advancement, demographic and geographic changes, has let the trends of job selection differ from the past. That’s many people are regarding Generation Y are so far different from the previous generation: Baby Boomer, and Generation X. In job selection, an average individual is always accustomed to the recruitment from employer side. In contrast, since the world has turned global, Generation Y are tempted to select their employers. By this means, they have attributes of self-confidence, self-discipline, and career-oriented characteristics due to the blending of family background, social status, and education levels. In mean time, the finding of this thematic paper only focuses on a group of people in Generation Y that graduated from an international college in Bangkok, Thailand. In Thai society, there is a belief that being master or proficient in English language would benefit more opportunities than others in career selection. That’s why this research is going to explore if it is right or wrong in the view of an employee. KEY WORDS: JOB SELECTION/GENERATION Y/GRADUATES FROM INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM/ JOB OFFER/ CRITERIA IN JOB SELECTION