The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

In a recent blog post, industry analyst Josh Bersin lays out how the U.S. job market is experiencing an unprecedented amount of churn right now. “So think about the numbers,” he writes. “One in ten (16 million) jobs open, over 4 million people leaving their jobs each month, and wages increasing at the highest rate ever. This is a crazy job market.”

Anecdotally, Josh is hearing from talent leaders that almost every position in every industry is difficult to fill, with qualified candidates hard to come by. “Candidates feel burned out, empowered, and ready to negotiate,” he writes. This is a boon to workers, but a challenge for companies and recruiters alike.

Josh lays out six tactics that companies anywhere can take to navigate an “on fire” job market. Find out what they are by checking out the top spot in our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals, but his fifth tactic in particular will be music to recruiters’ ears: “Take good care of your recruiters,” he writes, “they’re still the key to great hiring.”

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. The Job Market Is Going Crazy and It’s Going to Get Worse. How Do We Recruit? (Josh Bersin)

2. The Hardest Job to Recruit For: Other Recruiters (The Wall Street Journal)

3. Why the ‘Stay Interview’ Is the Next Big Trend of the Great Resignation (CNBC)

4. Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous (Harvard Business Review)

5. 8 Tips for Writing Enticing Job Descriptions in a Candidate’s Market (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

6. The ‘I’ in BIPOC: 4 Tips for Recruiting Indigenous Talent (HR Dive)

7. 5 Ways to Compete in Today’s Talent Market (Hunt Scanlon Media)

8. The Remote Work Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (Vox)

9. The Traditional Interview Is a Terrible Predictor of Performance (LinkedIn)

10. Their Holiday Parties Are Just Getting Restarted (The New York Times)

This week’s must-listen podcast:

One Way to Fight the Great Resignation? Re-recruit Your Current Employees (HBR Idea Cast)

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