The 10 Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week
Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too.
In October, we told you about Karly Blackburn — the intrepid job seeker who, in an attempt to connect with recruiters at Nike, sent a vanilla-flavored sheet cake to the company offices in Beaverton, Oregon, with her resume printed on top. She shared about her experience on LinkedIn and her post went viral, with the majority of commenters giving her kudos for her creativity and initiative.
If you’ve been wondering how Karly’s job hunt has been going, we’re happy to report that she recently landed her “dream job” and will be starting her new gig on Monday. Find out where she’ll be working and what her new role will be by checking out the top spot in our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals (we love a sweet outcome!).
Elsewhere on the list, read a Stanford business school professor’s take on why many tech companies are laying off large numbers of their workforce (spoiler alert: he think it’s copycat behavior that leads to bad outcomes); brush up on the latest lingo employers are using to describe their flexwork options; and learn how a recent pay transparency law is shedding light on gender pay equity in Ireland.
Here are the must-read articles from this week:
1. Woman Lands New Job After Resume Cake Goes Viral on LinkedIn (WPVI-TV)
2. Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill (The New York Times)
3. Why Are There So Many Tech Layoffs, and Why Should We Be Worried? Stanford Scholar Explains (Stanford News)
4. The Most In-Demand Jobs Right Now (LinkedIn Talent Blog)
5. No More Fridays: A Real-World Experiment Just Proved That We Should All Shift to a Four-Day Workweek (Business Insider)
6. Employers Are Rebranding Hybrid Work to Send a Message (Los Angeles Times)
7. Economic Slowdown Likely to Force Workers to Accept Lower Quality Jobs (International Labour Organization)
8. Sustainability’s Impact on Talent Teams (Hunt Scanlon Media)
9. Companies Cut Temp Workers in Warning Sign for Labor Market (The Wall Street Journal)
10. How Ireland Is Trying to Close the Gender Pay Gap (HR Brew)
Here is the must-listen podcast:
Beyond the Transaction: How to Achieve Growth in an Uncertain Economy, with Greg Hollis (The Resilient Recruiter)
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