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Companies can work to avoid the high cost of turnover by keeping Gen Y’s attention through training and employee development programs. We’ve rounded up the top five articles with tips, examples of successful programs, and interesting data on employee growth programs.

What are you worth to an employer? Quick, come up with a number. OK. Now, let’s come up with a realistic number. Negotiating salary is, for most of us, as difficult as getting past phone screens and interviews to the job offer. It can be tough to think of yourself in dollar terms. If you’re not prepared to negotiate, you’re sure to be unhappy with almost any offer. So don’t be caught flat-footed.

Erase the phrase “it’s just a job” from your vocabulary. Putting minimal effort into a job is only doing you a disservice. Even the smallest job should be treated as if it is a stepping stone to something else… because it might be! Every job has the chance to wow someone, to lead to an amazing recommendation or to expand your network.

I have come across certain people who have tweeted nothing but their offerings and wares. Recruiters, you’re as guilty as anyone – I get that you’re posting a job, but why not at least attempt to converse with someone who may be a candidate rather than turn everything you post into a classifieds section? I don’t get it. Why are you on social media if you clearly don’t want to be social? Because that, my friend, is not social media. That’s advertising. And it’s frowned upon.

Would you like to engage, grow, and inspire your team members? Doing so requires proactive communication regularly, not just during annual review discussions. Developing star performers requires creating meaningful conversations well before the performance review. A conversation can be powerful and inspiring or flat and dull or somewhere in between. Are your conversations creating engagement, momentum, and inspiring others? Your ability to guide people to see around corners and to read what motivates them will make you a more effective manager, leader, and developer of star performers.

Leadership is the most studied of all psychological phenomena – a reality that puzzles researchers of more quotidian behaviors. I believe this owes to the fact that some part of us believes that we can be a leader, even if our current behaviors and station may do little to suggest that latent potential.

If you’d like to work in your corporation’s office in Barcelona or Bangalore or Brasilia, “raise your hand” and make your interest known, said Shafiq Lokhandwala, chief executive of NuView, a human resources software company. He hears from his clients, including many international companies, how difficult it is to choose the right people to send on overseas assignments, and then to keep them engaged once they’re there. Showing you’ve got what it takes to live and work in a foreign country can start with your approach right now, no matter how American your cubicle and coworkers are.

The key to personal branding, like any good marketing, means telling a story, but things like personal websites, Twitter profiles and Facebook pages are just the beginning. Every story needs a middle and an end. To get to the happy ending of a successful job search, however, means finding that middle ground between personal objectives and professional experience. While your story should be written with an external audience in mind, selling yourself externally requires looking internally.

Think about a time when you’ve started in a new role. Does this sound familiar? You have good people, and good values, but something isn’t working. How do you preserve what works and still drives the company forward? One of the biggest challenges can be building a brand—and intertwining your personal brand with your company’s brand.