Happy Friday, and Happy New Year! Two of the biggest themes of this year were “the great resignation” caused by the pandemic, and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Let’s take a look at this year’s must read articles for recruiters, hiring managers and everyone in between:
All About The Great Resignation
Why It’s So Hard to Keep and Recruit Employees Right Now (Read @ MIT Sloan)
The Most Important Thing Your Company Can Do to Get and Keep Talent (Read @ Inc.)
Why service workers are so burned out (Read @ BBC Worklife)
The Great Realization Should Change How We Hire (Read @ Lead with Indeed)
Research: Why Rejected Internal Candidates End Up Quitting (Harvard Business Review)
In the Middle of the Great Resignation, Employers Are Rejecting Millions of Qualified Workers, New Harvard Research Finds (Read @ Inc.)
All About Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
4 Common Ways Companies Alienate People with Disabilities (Read @ HBR)
8 Go-To Strategies for Sourcing Underrepresented Talent (Read @ LinkedIn)
The workers keeping their disabilities secret (Read @ BBC Worklife)
Jobs Friday: Where are all the older workers? (Read/Listen @ NPR)
I Have MS. Would Your Company Hire or Recognize Me?’ (Read @ TLNT)
We hire the formerly incarcerated—and it’s the key to our success (Read @ Fast Company)
How Eliminating Degree Requirements Can Save You Time, Money, and Turnover (Read @ LinkedIn Talent)
How to Provide an LGBTQ-Friendly Candidate Experience (Read @ ERE)
We Can’t Ask Your Age in This Job Interview, but Please Take This Quiz About Rotary Phones (Read @ The New Yorker)
Everything Else:
The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them (Read @ New York Times)
5 Things the Better.com CEO Did Wrong When He Fired 900 People–Over Zoom (Read @ Inc.)
It’s Hard Being a Recruiter Right Now — This Woman Speaks Up About It (Read @ LinkedIn)
A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got one interview (Read @ Business Insider)
Robots are hiding 27 million workers from employers who need them (Read @ MarketWatch)
How to Ask Job Candidates if They Are Vaccinated (Read @ Evil HR Lady via Inc.)
how do I reject a difficult internal applicant? (Read @ Ask a Manager)
The ‘overemployed’ workers juggling remote jobs (Read @ BBC Worklife)
What Amazon’s $18 average hourly wage means for other employers (Read @ Quartz)
Chaotic search for a new ‘Jeopardy!’ host is a lesson in hidden hiring biases (Read @ Washington Post)
Disgruntled HR executive trashed personnel files and deleted 17,000 resumes after being fired — now faces up to 15 years in prison (Read @ Market Watch)
Is the entry-level job going extinct? (Read @ QZ at Work)
Why Recruiters Leave Recruiting (Read @ ERE)
LinkedIn to add ‘stay-at-home parent,’ other titles for users who left workforce (Read @ HR Dive)
Your Company’s Pay Gap Is About More Than Money (Read @ Harvard Business Review)
WHAT YOUR RECRUITERS SHOULD DO WHEN A HIRING MANAGER DOESN’T WANT TO INTERVIEW SUBMITTED CANDIDATES (Read @ fistful of talent)
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