by Bhatt Unnati | May 3, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
Over 38 million people quit their jobs in 2021, with more projected to leave this year as part of The Great Resignation. What this shortage has done is pose a new challenge for employers to not only hire quickly but retain the workers they have by optimising job...
by Bhatt Unnati | May 3, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
Employment openings exceeded the level of available workers by 5.6 million in March while a record number of people quit their jobs, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The level of job postings hit 11.55 million for the month, also a fresh record for data that...
by Bhatt Unnati | May 2, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
“How would you fit a giraffe into a fridge?” An asinine question in most settings, but especially peculiar during a job interview. And yet, these kinds of ‘quirky’ and arbitrary lines of questioning seem to be commonplace during the interview process. In an attempt to...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 28, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
Are we feeling more burned out than ever? According to Google Trends, which since 2004 has collected data on what the world is searching for, queries for “burnout”—from work, life, and school—are at an all-time high in the US. The pandemic has exacerbated a trend that...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 27, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
When the job of a young east coast-based analyst – we’ll call him James – went remote with the pandemic, he didn’t envisage any problems. The company, a large US retailer for which he has been a salaried employee for more than half a decade, provided him with a...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 26, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
Executives and managers want you to come back to the office, but they’re just fine phoning it in from the couch, thank you very much. As calls for returning to the office intensify, new research suggests that the C-suite might not be practicing what they’re...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Career Advice, Latest News
After trending up in recent years, employee engagement in the U.S. saw its first annual decline in a decade — dropping from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 34% in 2021. This pattern has continued into early 2022, as 32% of full- and part-time employees working...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 25, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
A year since the U.S. began seeing record turnover, exhausted recruiters are putting everything on the table. The recovering pandemic economy has proven to be a job-seeker’s market, with nearly 48 million people quitting a job last year and 76 million taking a new...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 21, 2022 | Career Advice, Latest News
Here’s some very bad happiness advice based on very solid happiness research: Feel important. Be happily married. Be Danish. Depending on how happiness is measured, all of these things really are associated with a happier life. But they’re unhelpful because they are...
by Bhatt Unnati | Apr 20, 2022 | Career Advice
Americans continue to quit their jobs amid the Great Resignation, with 4.4 million people leaving their roles in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In total, 6.27 million people were unemployed in February. With 11.3 million job openings that...
