Most-clicked story of the week
Close to 1 in 5 workers surveyed by ResumeBuilder.com said the job they have now is either completely different or has changed significantly from what they were hired to fill, per a report released earlier this month. This bait-and-switch gap may leave workers uncertain about what they are meant to do day to day as well as feeling undervalued and overlooked by the organization at large.
Number of the week: 78%
The percentage of senior HR leaders, talent acquisition managers and learning and development experts who are worried about how artificial intelligence tools may affect the development of critical leadership skills. As AI takes over entry-level tasks, the leadership pipeline is shrinking, per research from Talogy.
Quote of the week
“What we found is that gender representation is more consequential. It is perhaps a primary reason women decide whether to enter a particular occupation in the first place.”
Stella Lourenco
Emory psychology professor, study author
Research from Emory University showed that women may not apply to jobs in certain industries due to a belief that they are not represented in those industries. In other words, women may not apply to jobs in fields like politics or STEM because those fields are perceived as consistently lacking in women, creating a self-reinforcing cycle, researchers said. As such, the researchers hypothesized “that gender representation may be a proxy for workplace climate.”
