By Dave Winsborough, Forbes, August 16, 2024 The rise of Gen AI has increased volatility in a job market already roiled by covid and the great resignation. It is now driving two key trends. The first is that new jobs will become more complex. An Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report showed that highly skilled jobs increased by 25% over the last 20 years and that before 2030 more than a billion jobs worldwide will be transformed. Second, organizations are shifting to skills-based hiring strategies and relying less on traditional signals of talent, like [...]

By Matthew Call, Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2024 Every leader wants a superstar on the team—the employee who can deliver double or triple the output of an average employee. These workers have the potential to single-handedly change the fortunes of a business. But the promise of big results comes at a price. Business lore is filled with stories of organizations bending over backward to recruit and retain top performers, offering lavish salaries, perks, and privileges. Little wonder, then, that even as bosses are wooing superstars, there is inevitably a question gnawing at them: Is [...]

By Callum Borchers and Lindsay Ellis May 30, 2024 Nine-hundred eighty-three people applied online for a job posted recently by tech recruiter Rob Tansey. The candidate who got the offer wasn’t one of them. Tansey, who scouts potential hires for aviation-software maker Veryon, received a half dozen referrals from a woman he knew from past job searches. One of those six quickly became the front-runner. That’s often how Tansey operates: He estimates that just 40% of successful applicants come in cold through his company’s job portal. “There’s an idealist in me that wants to look [...]