The 10 Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

Whether you call it the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, or the Great Renegotiation, the dramatic shift we’re seeing in the global workforce may be less about “job quitting” and more about “job swapping.”

“Many of last year’s job quitters are actually job swappers,” reports The New York Times. “Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the census . . . shows a nearly one-to-one correlation between the rate of quitting and swapping.”

Job swapping may also be a slightly misleading term, as it could be argued that many workers across industries are actually “job upgrading” — for better pay, more flexibility, and less stress.

“Now workers are saying, ‘We’re going to hold our bosses accountable and demand more from them,’” explains Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers.

To learn more about job quitting, swapping, and upgrading, be sure to check out the Times’ story at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. And further down the list, you can also learn how to better upskill your existing employees; which jobs you may be recruiting for in 2030; and why your dog may not be ready for you to return to the office.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. All of Those Quitters? They’re at Work (The New York Times)

2. 6 Strategies to Upskill Your Workforce (Harvard Business Review)

3. Here’s What Gen Z and Millennials Want from Their Employers Amid the Great Resignation (CNBC)

4. 15 Jobs You’ll Be Recruiting for in 2030 (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

5. Tech Companies Coddled Their Employees. Now They’re Firing Them (Bloomberg)

6. The 16 Top HR Professionals You Must Follow in 2022 (Recooty HR Blog)

7. DocuSign’s Chief Diversity and Engagement Officer on How to Use Data to Improve DEI (Protocol)

8. U.S. Warns of Discrimination in Using Artificial Intelligence to Screen Job Candidates (NPR)

9. ‘What Nobody Told Me When I Started Recruiting’ (ERE)

10. Your Dog Is Not Ready for You to Return to the Office (The New York Times)

This week’s must-listen podcast:

Long Term Trends (Recruiting Future with Matt Alder)

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