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Startups

Is startup culture the new normal for millennials? Have we killed “traditional” business? And what’s it like working for a startup anyway? Do people really take naps during the day and get catered lunches?? Let us know!

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Promotions and raises

Is that even a thing anymore? Or do you have to leave your job and get a completely new one if you want to move up? We want to hear from people who have gotten raises and promotions from their company AND people who have never gotten a raise or promotion. How do your respective companies differ? What does it take for a company to retain millennial employees?

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Customer service professionals

Where do you draw the line when it comes to angry customers? Have you ever been in a situation with an angry customer that made you feel unsafe? Is there a generational disconnect when it comes to customer service?

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From 15 camps in 12 cities that taught 300 girls last year, it will spread to 50 camps in 25 cities and teach a total of 1,000 campers. To staff the camps, Kode With Klossy is teaming up with non-profit Teach for America, which will supply 50 instructors.

Model Karlie Kloss Sees Big Growth For Her Coding Camp For Teen Girls

MAR 16, 2018 Susan Adams , FORBES STAFF

Karlie Kloss (second from left) and instructors at Kode With Klossy’s camp in Detroit.

When Forbes put model Karlie Kloss on the cover of our 30 Under 30 issue in December, my colleague Natalie Robehmed noted that the 36-time Vogue cover girl was an unlikely candidate to launch a computer coding nonprofit. But in the last three years, Kode With Klossy has taught almost 400 young women aged 13-18 the fundamentals of programming languages including Ruby, Javascript, HTML, and CSS. The organization runs a series of two-week tuition-free coding summer camps across the country.

Today Kloss announced a dramatic expansion of the program. From 15 camps in 12 cities that taught 300 girls last year, it will spread to 50 camps in 25 cities and teach a total of 1,000 campers. To staff the camps, Kode With Klossy is teaming up with non-profit Teach for America, which will supply 50 instructors.

Growing up in a suburb of St. Louis, Kloss loved math and science but her public high school, Webster Groves High, didn’t offer computer classes. At age 13, she was discovered by a modeling scout at a charity fashion show in a mall. It was a challenge to juggle classwork with her modeling jobs, which took her to Paris and New York. But she graduated on time, wearing a Dior dress to her senior prom and at 6’2”, towering over her date. After modeling full-time for two years, she gained admission to New York University’s Gallatin School (mentor and model-turned-philanthropist Christy Turlington wrote a recommendation letter), where she is studying toward a yet-to-be-determined major.

In 2014, between modeling gigs, she took her first one-week coding class at the Flatiron School in New York City. Founded in 2012, Flatiron is one of the first coding boot camps, offering intensive courses to students who want to gain skills quickly. Kloss loved the course. “It opened my eyes to the power of code and all the ways this very technical language can be used in very creative ways,” she says.

She also noted that her class was predominantly male, an imbalance mirrored in the tech workforce and in higher education, where women earned only 18% of undergraduate computer science degrees in 2015. At the high school level, just 40% of public high school principals report that their schools offer even one computer science course, according to an October 2016 Gallup poll.

In 2015, Kloss spent more than $20,000 to underwrite 21 scholarships for girls aged 13-18 to attend Flatiron’s two-week pre-college coding class. The school matched her donation.

The next year she launched her own program, calling it Kode With Klossy. She hired a team of temporary summer teachers and developed a curriculum aimed at teens. Classes ran from 9am to 5pm, five days a week, for two weeks. In 2015, a total of 70 girls did the camps in New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis.

Kloss, whose contract earnings totaled $9 million in the 12 months prior to June 2017 according to Forbes’ estimate (she first made Forbes’ highest-paid model list in 2014), has personally donated seven figures to Kode With Klossy. For additional funding, she has redirected a share of her modeling contracts with companies including Adidas, Swarovski, and Express. Ford’s STEAM Experience, part of the carmaker’s philanthropic arm that focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math, as well as the arts, has contributed funding. Co-working space giant WeWork is donating space to house the camps this summer in New York and other cities.

Kode With Klossy scholars in Detroit.

Kode With Klossy campers, whom Kloss calls scholars, have notched a series of accomplishments, from designing apps that do things like help users find gender-neutral bathrooms to winning hackathons. A 16-year-old scholar named Sowmya Patapati led a group of three high school girls who won the $5,000 grand prize at the May 2017 Disrupt NY Hackathon. Competing in a field of 750, the girls designed a virtual reality app that helps diagnose and treat ADHD.

Would-be 2018 campers can start applying today through the Kode With Klossy site. The application period closes April 15 and the list of admitted scholars will be announced in early May. “We’re looking for a dynamic, diverse set of girls who share a curiosity and excitement for learning,” says Kloss. “Many of the girls who apply already understand how powerful code and technology are.” Given Kloss’s 12.6 million social media followers, the competition is sure to be stiff.

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Millennials in Management

Does your company have any millennials working at a management level? Are you a manager? Are millennials still too inexperienced to manage, or do they make better managers? Talk to us, people

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Susan in HR doesn’t have the decency to send a rejection letter anyway

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We’re over searching for jobs

How many jobs do you typically apply for before getting an interview? How long do you typically stay at a job? Do you need any tips or advice for nailing a cover letter/resume/interview?

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Does anyone actually know their rights when it comes to workplace discrimination?

Have you ever filled a discrimination complaint? Has anyone filed one against you?

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We totally hate job apps that ask us to make an account

Are we really expected to remember the password for a job portal when we know the company won’t even have the decency to send a rejection letter?

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Millennials: Let’s talk about school shootings

Some of us are still in school. Some of us are teachers. Do school shootings make you think twice about pursuing further education? What about teaching? Are you down to be a teacher with a gun on your hip? We want to hear from you.

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An Introduction to MRGR

MRGR is an epistemic collective based in Brooklyn. At MRGR, we think companies that consider Millennials the leaders of tomorrow are already stuck in the past. Millennials are the leaders of today, but they haven’t been given the access, support or resources to excel in the workforce. Due to a lack of real Millennial perspective in business, too many companies struggle with reaching Millennials, fostering their growth within the company, and retaining them after giving them skills and experience. MRGR seeks to solve this problem. We aren’t business experts, but we are Millennials who have felt (and sometimes still feel) lost in the world of business. We created a place for Millennials to identify issues in the workforce and collaborate on solutions.

MRGR doesn’t discriminate. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion regardless of sex, gender, race, disability, class, education level, sexual orientation or industry of profession—the restaurant dishwasher’s input is just as valuable as that of the startup CEO. We take social, political and economic oppression into account, and understand that the complex and diverse people who make up the millennial generation have been given varying degrees of opportunity.

If you’re a Millennial with a job--any job--we want to hear from you!