After graduating from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, Healy spent a year working as a consultant with IBM Global Business Services. During that time he developed an interest in Human Resources and Recruiting issues, specifically as they related to Generation Y.
After six months on the job he decided to make his voice heard and founded the Generation-Y career blog, Employee Evolution, along with Ryan Paugh. The blog has appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Business Week.
Healy has also been featured as a spokesperson for Generation Y on CBS’s 60 Minutes. In September 2007, Healy left IBM and moved to Madison, Wisconsin to start Brazen Careerist. He speaks with companies, organizations and non-profits on a variety of career and generational specific topics.
Outside of technology, blogging, and new media, Healy has a passion for family, friends, jogging, reading, Chipotle burritos, and all things Boston Sports.
Ryan Healy's blog is Employee Evolution.
College is a great place to learn how to work hard, party hard, and make friends–but not as much about the business world, because business in the real world is about experience, confidence, and the network you build. Here are 8 business rules you didn’t learn in college.
Managing Generation Y isn’t all that different from managing anyone else. You need to demand a lot, manage a lot and respect the fact that they have a life outside of work. That being said, there are some things that Gen Y employees believe that past generations may not have thought at the same age.
Everyone in their twenties is well aware that with age and experience comes wisdom. And if you want that wisdom now, you better embrace the “old folks.”
But as much as I don’t like to admit I’m working for anyone else, Penelope Trunk is our CEO and, well, she’s the boss. So over the past 8 months I’ve learned how to work with her so that I put myself on equal footing, most of the time. Here’s how I’ve done it.
Management is not easy. Every manager still runs into challenges that question what they think they know, every single day. Here is a list of nine management mistakes that new managers can hopefully avoid.
Social media is changing how business works, so businesses better figure out how social media works. Here’s why every company needs to embrace social media, now.
Managing Gen Y is the hot topic among consultants, Human Resource executives and talent management professionals. For a Gen Yer like me, this is great news. And since we’re primed to change the workplace for the better, let me predict how we’ll do it.
It’s easy to create a list, accomplish a few things, then add more and more until you become an obsessive, stressed out, productivity machine. But accomplishing task after task for the sake of getting things done does not lead to happiness. So here are three ways to avoid merely working your list and thereby missing your joy.
Leaving your large company to join a start-up is never an easy decision to make. I’ve learned a lot since I made that choice, so here are just four of those things to consider before you ditch your large company for life in a start-up.
Fear worked in Henry Ford’s day. People knew they would be fired if they didn’t produce, so they worked harder. But fear does not work anymore.
