Still doing Zoom/Teams meetings? At the beginning of the pandemic, when many people began to adopt Zoom and other digital conferencing alternatives to in-person meetings, everyone was pretty forgiving. If your half-naked kid or meandering spouse wandered into the frame, your co-workers might just laugh it off. As teleconferencing becomes the permanent norm for a lot of people — or, at least, an [...]
Are you a Do It Yourselfer? An article in the New York Times from about 10 years ago made the rounds again recently. “Why We Never Use Professional Recruiters” makes a case for DIYing all your hiring. Granted, I’m biased, but it’s a weak case. Yes, you can hire without a recruiter. You could also draft your own will and keep it in [...]
How is that new position going for you? When you got this job, it was sold to you as the answer to your career dreams. You walked into your first day expecting to change lives and feel completely fulfilled by your role. According to Kathryn Minshew – CEO of The Muse – the term for this is shift shock. Look out! Another new [...]
The Great Resignation spawned a whole new lexicon for the workplace. First there was quiet quitting. Next came quiet hiring. Not far after that came “presenteeism”. Presenteeism is when workers stay in a job they don’t like while growing more resentful and less productive. Now, there’s something even better: rage-applying. That’s when people get so fed up at their jobs that they compulsively [...]
No doubt tech layoffs have dominated the news recently. Watching the ticker tape of tech layoffs has been nerve-racking for a lot of people. But even as mass amounts of layoffs happen at high-profile companies, what you don’t hear in the news is how quickly those laid-off folks are finding new work. One analysis by Revelio Labs found that 72% of those laid [...]
What do I do about a gap in employment on my resume? Conventional wisdom was always that resume gaps were bad… until Gen Z (and the pandemic) came along. Younger workers are rewriting the rule book in many ways, including when it comes to resume gaps. One recent UK survey showed that nearly half of Gen Zers in that country have at least [...]
The talent market is tight all around. It's tough recruiting and retaining talent. A star employee unexpectedly resigns. Your first instinct? Make a counteroffer. Yes, the counteroffer is one tool you have at your disposal when it comes to retention. But the power wielded by the counteroffer can be short-lived. Offering the employee more money, bigger bonuses, or more responsibility does not always [...]
Things seemingly have changed in the workplace since pre-COVID. The tenor of work for 2023 has been tentatively set, and for those clients & candidates I’m working with, we are off to the races! So what are we all feeling about it? I love WorkLife’s short list of what’s “in” and what’s “out” for work in general in 2023. Included on the “out” [...]
“How do best we fire employees?” Sounds harsh. An unfortunate question to have to ask, but here we are. Many companies have found themselves in the position of having to conduct layoffs recently. According to layoffs(dot)fyi, as of 1/31, 241 tech companies have laid off 77,916 employees in January 2023 alone. That’s just in the tech sector! Some do it by giving advanced [...]
Maybe it’s not surprising that Gen Z is having a hard time adjusting to some job-related issues. But would you guess those issues are tech-related? Quick reminder of generally accepted generation parameters: • Boomers 1946 – 1964 • Gen X 1965 – 1980 • Millenials – 1981 – 1996 • Gen Z – 1997 – 2012 • Gen Alpha – 2012 ~ mid [...]