Imagine giving candidates a simple challenge: How can you help our company become more sustainable, more responsible, and more profitable?

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This is the hiring process of the future.

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New college graduates, the leading edge of Generation Z, are leaving college now and moving into the job market. This is a generation that’s committed to making positive change in their world.

Here are a few things to note:
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• They don’t see climate change as debatable. It’s simply accepted fact for them since they’ve seen most of the hottest years and damaging natural disasters in modern history.
• They are a mobile generation. They grew up with a supercomputer in their hands.
• They believe that the world can be a better place.
• They believe that companies, not governments, are the driving force for change in the world.
• They want to be a part of that change.

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The hiring process of the near future will include looking at how the applicant’s social commitments align with the company’s. Where it used to be a conversation about how money was made, work was done, and paychecks were handed out, it’s becoming a conversation of how, together, the new employee and the company can make the world a better place.

Generation Z is as likely to look at a company’s mission statement and corporate responsibility page as they are their job listings.

This creates a new hiring process, one where you’re going to need to talk about corporate responsibility along with job duties, salaries, and more.