College students are great options for new hires. While many will have limited job experience, they’re best suited for introductory positions, that give them a strong start in their career and help them grow. In managing student employees, you need to think of yourself as a workplace coach, helping convert even the most mundane, repetitive task into a valuable learning and growth experience. But even with this mindset, keeping them focused and engaged remains a challenge.

For the majority of the last two decades, colleges and universities have been catering their efforts towards millennials, and they have had a lot of success understanding how to recruit and keep millennial students at their institutions. However, many campus leaders are not aware of the mindset of the new generation (born between 1995-2010) that is approaching their college years or already in them, Generation Z.