The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

Have you ever taken a moment to really think about how much of your life is spent working? If you’re not in the mood to do some quick math, a recent article from The Atlantic has numbers at hand: “The typical career,” they write about U.S. workers, “is about 80,000 hours long, or one-sixth of the average person’s waking life.”

That’s a lot of minutes spent at your desk, out in the field, or wherever else it is that you’re making a dollar — especially considering the many recently released reports that highlight just how unhappy workers are these days.

But are workers really that miserable in their jobs? The Atlantic believes that much of the recent reporting about worker unhappiness — from the Great Resignation to quiet quitting — may be overblown.

“The truths here are old and familiar,” The Atlantic writes. “Work is work: mostly necessary, often boring, frequently annoying, occasionally insulting, and sometimes rewarding. The media keep inventing a new lexicon every few months to explain this consistent state of affairs, and readers lap it up.”

To learn more about employee well-being and why U.S. workers may actually be pretty content with their jobs, be sure to check out the top spot in our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals.

And further down our list, you can also find out which companies give the biggest raises and best promotions; why “name-blinding” should be a part of your resume assessments; and how executives are treated differently in interviews.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. What If Americans Are Happy at Work? (The Atlantic)

2. Competing for Talent Begins with Learning and Development (Fast Company)

3. How Is AI Reshaping the Labor Market? (Glen Cathey on LinkedIn)

4. A Recruiter’s Holiday Wish List (Jennifer Widerberg on LinkedIn)

5. The 10 Companies That Give the Biggest Raises, the Best Promotions, and Have the Strongest Culture (Business Insider)

6. Data Insights from Bersin’s New Definitive Guide to Human Resources (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

7. Why Are Gen Zers Great Entrepreneurs? Same Reasons We’re Called Terrible Employees (Post Grad Newsletter)

8. Why You Need Name-Blinding When Assessing Candidates’ Resumes (Dr. John Sullivan on LinkedIn)

9. Do Execs Get Different Treatment in Job Interviews? (Benjamin Sesser on LinkedIn)

10. The Rise of the Meta City (Harvard Business Review)

Here is the must-listen podcast:

Why We Need Responsible Companies to Create a Better World of Work (The Edge of Work)