Be careful what you wish for: Many HR leaders have long pined for a seat at the proverbial table, and now they have it — it just happens to be the hot seat.
Their C-suite colleagues, Time says, are looking for direction on how their organizations should handle COVID, burnout, social justice issues, remote work, and plenty more.
“HR departments are in overdrive right now — and there is no playbook,” Marissa Andrada, chief diversity, inclusion, and people officer at Chipotle Mexican Grill, told Time. “The one big learning from 2020 and 2021 is that if your culture is not healthy then your company is not healthy.”
Time’s look at the opportunities — and unending challenges — for HR chiefs leads off this week’s list of must-read articles for talent professionals. Further down the list, read about the rise of skills-based hiring, the frustrating challenges of online job applications, and the thorny issues that come with putting salary ranges on job postings. Finally, take a minute to marvel at the incredible life of Paul Farmer, a doctor who brought quality health care to millions of people in the world’s most impoverished countries and who embodied a lesson that all recruiters should feel in their bones: One person can make an enormous difference.
Here are the must-read articles from this week:
1. How the Pandemic Has Propelled HR Chiefs into the Boardroom (Time)
2. Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise (Harvard Business Review)
3. Most People — 92% — Never Finish Online Job Applications (SHRM)
4. Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring (The New York Times)
5. Salaries on Job Postings: A Technical Problem Wrapped in a Strategy Problem (ERE)
6. The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying (The Atlantic)
7. Skin Deep: How DEI Initiatives May Be Excluding Plus-Size Workers (Employee Benefit News)
8. Recruiting for Recruiters Has Never Been Harder: Here’s How You Can Beat the Competition (LinkedIn Talent Blog)
9. Turn the ‘Great Resignation’ into the ‘Great Renegotiation’ (Strategy+Business)
10. Paul Farmer, a Giant of Public Health, Dies at 62 (The Washington Post)
This week’s must-listen podcast:
Inside Companies That Get the Purpose-Profit Balance Right (HBR IdeaCast)
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