The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

“After all the crises Gen Z has experienced,” writes financial educator and Gen Zer Kyla Scanlon, “there’s almost nothing we want to do in the way it’s always been done.”

In an article for Fast Company, Kyla outlines how events of the past two decades — including the pandemic, the 2008 financial crisis, and an increase in extreme climate events — have pushed her generation to rethink everything from housing and financial security to friendships and what it means to achieve the “American dream.”

She also sees Gen Z challenging how we work. “Almost 60% of people’s time is spent using office software for communication — email, mostly,” she notes. “That’s a huge creative-energy vortex. The prevailing work culture, defined by baby boomers and Gen X, is already outmoded in being able to deliver the freedom Gen Z seeks.”

To learn more about what makes Gen Z tick — and how that could influence your company’s efforts to attract, retain, and upskill the latest generation to enter the workforce — be sure to check out Kyla’s Fast Company piece at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals.

And further down our list, you can learn what industry leader Josh Bersin sees as a discrepancy between the promise and the reality of building a skills-based organization; why employers may have a bigger problem than “quiet quitting” on their hands; and why a little boredom at work can be a good thing.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. Kyla Scanlon on Why Gen Z Is Redefining the Concept of Job Satisfaction (Fast Company)

2. Building a Skills-Based Organization: The Exciting but Sober Reality (Josh Bersin)

3. Job Interviews Are Getting Longer — Here’s Why It Could Be a Red Flag (CNBC)

4. The ‘Great Resignation’ Is Over. Can Workers’ Power Endure? (The New York Times)

5. How Leaders Can Rewrite the Story Around Employee Well-Being (Newsweek)

6. 10 Factors That Can Help Lure Top Talent (Spoiler: Comp Is Only One of Them) (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

7. Navy Forcing Its Recruiters to Work Six Days a Week (Navy Times)

8. Forget ‘Quiet Quitting,’ Employers Have a Bigger Problem with Workers (The Street)

9. How to Be Ready for the Next Generation of Workforce Talent (Spiceworks)

10. The Benefits of Being Bored at Work (Harvard Business Review)

Here is the must-listen podcast:

The Art of Executive Hiring with Katie Moriarty (Hiring on All Cylinders)