When you think about both recruiting and employee retention tips to attract and keep top talent next year, who is the most common job candidate you're bound to meet or manage?

Signs point to a female Millennial (or Generation Y – born between the mid 1970s and the late 1990s).

As these two articles note, 2010 is a turning point for both Millennials and women, who are set to become dominant in the workforce.

On a related note, currently women are not the dominant gender among applicants for Winning Workplaces and Inc. Magazine's 2010 Top Small Workplaces competition.  As of today, the firms are 43% female : 57% male employees.  But there's still time for this to shift: the application deadline is January 22, 2010.

We don't ask about employee age range in our application so we don't have any data to share on that.

What are you doing as part of investing in your workplace to cater to young, female employees who will likely be most dominant in the workforce next year?

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