A December holiday batch of links
Since the last batch of links went out, paying subscribers enjoyed an essay about small talk and making it bigger, then a reflection about how meetings have improved over the past years. This coming weekend, they’ll receive a detailed overview of what corporate events should look like ahead.
Below, you’ll find a batch of links that represent the topics that this newsletter covers, which are professional development, community building, and self care.
Some Twitter Power Users Try Business Casual on LinkedIn. Everyone has LinkedIn pegged wrong dating back to a time when it wasn’t a crucial tool to connect with people. In the current jobs market, not only is LinkedIn essential to be logging into, it requires people who want to really separate themselves to rethink their impressions. This article doesn’t show any inkling of that. It’s the same as it ever was.
In search of an attainable New Year’s resolution.
Fintech giants face uphill battle.
Hire responsibly and carefully. No, that does not mean you should have the people on staff doing the work of two to three employees. It means that each open position should have been thought through carefully. Is it really needed? Can this hire wait until we’re further along? Would it make more sense to hire a contractor for the time being?
Strong returns could be hard to find in 2023. How to prep your portfolio and generate income.
Should You Quit a Chaotic Job Right Now, or Stick It Out? The way that career experts talk about careers is super strange: “Pinpoint your worst-case scenario if you were to make a change. Then evaluate the likelihood of that bad outcome happening, giving it a number on a one to 10 scale, Mr. Hellmann says.” What are you even talking about? Do people do this? …Why?
Gen Z came to 'slay.' Their bosses don't know what that means.
Can your boss make you sleep at work? I love that this is thrown in near the end. “The decision to put beds in the office makes even less sense when you consider how many remote employees have increased their productivity already by sleeping where they work—at home.”
Want to set yourself apart? Own your job.
In 2022 workers won the return-to-office battle with their bosses—at least for now. I don’t think it’s right to conclude that offices are dead, rather that we did a poor job of figuring out how to message around them - and then to use them to success.
Résumés perpetuate bias in the hiring process—these companies think skills assessments can be the solution. It’s not weird to me that companies still ask for resumes in 2022. It’s very weird to me that so many hiring managers stare at resumes when they’re conducting job interviews. The interview is wasted focusing on the resume. Deemphasize the resume.
Holiday Break Will Be Anything But for Guilt-Ridden US Workers.
The solution to low productivity and quiet quitting is simpler than most managers realize: It's about making people feel that they matter. This is a good overview of what managers should have learned over the past 33 months of witnessing their employees behave differently than the managers were used to. It’s not a lot to ask of them.
Out of office: Why more people are taking mid-career sabbaticals.
Big tech is laying off workers. The growing ‘green collar’ job industry hopes to recruit them. This is a possible positive side effect to come out of the current era, as people who didn’t have reason to pause and ask what they truly wished to be doing with their talents are asking those questions actively and openly. I hope that climate roles offer them - and in turn the world - what they’re looking for.