When articles about the “quiet quitting” phenomenon pop up in our news feeds, the stories often revolve around the idea that employees are disengaged and have dropped work down the list of life’s priorities. But what if employers are also conducting a form of quiet quitting? “Employees aren’t the only ones distancing themselves from the
My fourth-grade teacher had a bigger impact on my education than any professor I had in college or grad school. How did she earn this distinction? She taught me how to study. By following her simple rules of thumb, over the years I was able to absorb and retain large chunks of information and head
If you haven’t made an embarrassing mistake at work or regretted a career move, please raise your hand. Our guess is that not a single person reading this is raising their hand right now. And if you are, we want to know your secret — you must have superpowers or supernatural abilities. All to say,
Want to make your job postings stand out from the rest? Borrow an idea from the public sector and share your career paths — right in the job description. Salary transparency has dominated the conversation for job seekers over the last several months, with New York, California, and Washington being the first to put transparency
Racial and gender pay gaps are both significant issues that affect many individuals and communities. The gender pay gap refers to the disparity in earnings between men and women, while the racial pay gap refers to the difference in earnings between people of different races or ethnicities. Both of these gaps are rooted in historical
We’ve all seen the headlines announcing that the Great Resignation is over. Economic uncertainty, many have pronounced, has turned the Big Quit into a Big Stay where workers are hunkering down and staying put in their current positions. But not so fast. According to a recent survey by Deloitte and Workplace Intelligence of workers in
Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) isn’t new technology, but it’s suddenly become a hot topic. There are 33x as many LinkedIn posts mentioning topics like generative AI and GPT than there were one year ago. Companies have been incorporating AI into their technology products for decades, but OpenAI has democratized it for everyone to use in
On paper, internal mobility always sounds like a great idea. Companies get to improve retention, reduce recruiting costs, and leverage employees who know the culture and workplace processes and can get up to speed more quickly in a new role. It would, of course, be an even better idea if most employees knew where to
Here’s a dead-simple tip to make your next job posting more effective: Add plenty of relevant skills to the requirements section. Including skills in this way could boost your conversion rate by 11%, according to recent data from LinkedIn revealed here for the first time. This tactic is just one aspect of “skills-first hiring,” a
“What is your greatest strength?” “Name a time you faced a challenge at work.” You’ve probably asked these generic questions more times than you’d like to admit. The problem isn’t just that they’re passé — it’s that candidates can see them coming a mile away and they’ve prepped predictable answers to your predictable questions. Instead, you want
