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Harmful stereotypes about millennials may be contributing to their struggles to find work in the federal government, according to a new report outlining the urgent need for Canada’s public service to recruit and nurture bright young talent.

Perceptions of millennials as narcissistic, impatient and disloyal may be factors causing difficulties in getting hired for public service jobs, says a report by Deloitte titled Changing the conversation: Millennials in the federal government. These perceptions are largely misunderstandings of some of the challenges millennials face, the report says.

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Millennials now make up the majority of working-age Canadians. In 2016, Treasury Board President Scott Brison said the next “golden age” of Canada’s public service would be led by millennials — meaning the federal workplace needed to transform to attract highly valued workers under age 35. That means, the report stresses, if Canada wants to modernize its public sector and empower “every generation” to deal with “21st-century challenges,” the barriers to hiring millennials need to be understood – and broken down.