THEY want to be paid at least $2,500 a month and be praised at work, but won't skip their evening gym sessions to work overtime.
They roll into the office with their iPods and mini-skirts around noon - and yet expect to be CEO by the end of the week.
But the shocker is: Many professionals - the young blood entering the workforce - whom my paper spoke to actually agreed with this depiction of themselves. Four local recruitment firms also affirmed these trends among new hires.
A recent episode of American news programme 60 Minutes zeroed in on those born after 1980, who are known as the Millennial Generation - or the iPod Generation.
Its findings were culled from interviews with employers, young employees and recruitment experts in the US.
The show found that Millennial Generation employees have no company loyalty and think that anyone over 30 is old, redundant and should be retired.
Mr Josh Goh of recruitment firm GMP Group felt that the same attitude prevails among the under-30s here who have not gone through a recession.
Said the corporate services manager: "Due to the current talent shortage, employers are telling recruits what the company can do for them, rather than ask what they can do for it."
Assistant project manager Mr Heng Tee Jin, 24, is one such Millennial Generation employee.
While he agreed that "young employees are often seen as lazy or lacking in ambition", he said he has also witnessed peers who are "equally hungry for success".
