How’s your mental health these days? Nearly half of employees say their mental health has declined since the pandemic started, according to McKinsey. And the firm also reports that mental health disorders are causing productivity losses in US companies to the tune of $1 trillion. Now, some companies are using AI to tackle the challenge. One tech company, for instance, has created AI [...]
Do you get paid enough for what you do? BambooHR surveyed 1,000 US employees to gauge how they’re feeling about their compensation. In a time when inflation has risen higher than it had in four decades, more than a third of the respondents said they haven’t had a raise in years. When asked, companies themselves said they plan to increase their salary budget [...]
What drives people to want to work hard? According to a recent survey I saw, most employees are best motivated via one of the following categories: 🔹 22% are play-driven and respond best to things that are fun and funny 🔹 20% are adrenaline-driven and like a challenge — to be a disruptor 🔹 19% are emotion-driven and love a good heartwarming story 🔹 15% are goal-driven [...]
Curiosity. Learning agility. A growth mindset. Critical analysis skills. The ability to collaborate. These are the top five soft skills the research company Cappfinity says you need to get hired in 2023. How do you demonstrate these kinds of skills in an interview? Ask the right questions. Demonstrate an eagerness to learn and try new things. Embrace the concept of new challenges. Show [...]
I honestly cannot remember the last time I heard someone say “think outside the box” in a professional setting. That tired old phrase long ago left the lexicon of most people in my orbit as a recruiter working with finance & accounting execs. Yet, Fast Company still includes “outside the box” in its swift takedown of business jargon, along with “disrupt,” “empower,” “circle [...]
Call it emotional intelligence, EQ, or soft skills, it’s important — and it’s vague. Ask many hiring managers, and they won’t be able to define what any of these things really mean, although they typically know it when they see it. And know they would like it. In general, soft skills are things like listening, empathy, communication and conflict resolution. No matter how [...]
In the wake of a Friday the 13th, there seems to be another number popping up - in business news. If you pay attention to HR news, you’ve probably seen a certain statistic many times recently: 13%. That’s the number of employees, more or less, laid off by Meta, Redfin, Stripe, Lyft, GoFundMe, Peloton, and more companies in late 2022. (Although the last [...]
Here’s a new buzzword for 2023: Sentinel Intelligence. Jessica Wildfire of substack Ok Doomer says people with sentinel intelligence “can aggregate and sift through extraordinary amounts of information in a very short period of time, especially when it comes to seeing latent or hidden dangers.” If you have sentinel intelligence, you’re highly intuitive and attuned to the unconscious mind. You might sometimes seem [...]
Ask a boss if they feel connected to their employees, and chances are, they’ll say, “Why, yes!” But ask the employee the same question, and the odds go down. Learning platform NovoEd recently polled 500 people and found that the majority of senior managers feel good about their relationships with those who report to them, but the employees themselves are not as confident. [...]
Are you happy with your current job? If your answer is “Tim, I really don’t have a straight answer to that,” January is a great time to get introspective. Here are some of the most obvious criteria to look at and think about: 🔹 Compensation, of course 🔹 The role you fill and where it could take you in your career 🔹 The impact you feel [...]