by Alex Funkhouser
Emotional intelligence expert Harvey Deutschendorf details how self-awareness can help even the most nervous interviewer.
Self-awareness is not only the basis of both professional and personal growth but a crucial ingredient in any job interview.Â
Traditionally, as job seekers, we spend much of our time and effort perfecting our resumes to showcase and highlight our skills, as well as thinking about how we will respond to questions such as âTell me about yourself.â While the focus is on technical skills and past experience, the fact that we are being interviewed tells us that employers have already decided that we have the necessary skills for the position. What hiring managers want to learn during the interview process is how we will fit into their organization and whether we have the personal attributes to excel in the job.
âan interview in the most basic sense is a set of questions about you, the more you know yourself the better youâll do.â
This is where self-awareness can help us stand out from the other applicants. Being self-aware can allow us to show self-confidence, authenticity, and adaptability. It helps us show our strengths in the optimal light and talk about our weaknesses in a manner that will not turn the interviewers off.
Read the complete Fast Company article BYÂ HARVEY DEUTSCHENDORF: https://www.fastcompany.com/90986294/why-self-awareness-is-the-secret-to-a-successful-job-interview
by Alex Funkhouser
As artificial intelligence becomes more adept at tasks once considered uniquely human, this edtech founder says these are the workforce skills that are becoming more important.
The last few decades have been dominated by rapid technological advancements but most of us will readily acknowledge that few developments have been as transformative as AI, especially its subset, generative AI. Todayâs AI capabilities have begun to outstrip even the most optimistic projections, raising fundamental questions about the future of work and workforce skills. As machines become adept at tasks once considered uniquely human, what does this mean for the modern workforce? Which skills will ascend in importance and define success in the imminent workplace landscape?
The ethical implications of AIâs decisions have non-trivial consequences. The ability for an employee to make ethical decisions ensures that the deployment of AI upholds societal values, respects human rights, and safeguards individual freedoms. It is the uniquely human skill of ethical decision-making that ensures that the AI deployed in the organization is never used in ways that are harmful, invasive, or unjust.
There is no question that virtually every job will eventually be affected by AI. In some cases, AI will simply be complementary to the job, but the prevailing belief is that about half of all jobs will be significantly disrupted by AI. Many historically important âhardâ skills and hiring credentials will rapidly become obsolete. The question becomes which workforce skills will become more important against the backdrop of AI. What skills should we hire and train for most in this rapidly evolving AI landscape?
There are five that rise to the surface and hereâs why.
Read the complete Fast Company article BY HEIDE ABELLI: https://www.fastcompany.com/90975351/the-5-soft-skills-needed-to-succeed-in-an-ai-dominated-workplace
by Alex Funkhouser
Spoiler alert: All three generations agree on the biggest workplace stressor, but not on the best place to get stuff done.
The modern workplace is undergoing a profound transformation, shaped in no small part by the diverse mix of generations in the workforce. With each generation bringing a unique perspective as well as different values and work habits to the workplace, itâs imperative to explore and embrace these distinctions. By acknowledging the strengths and challenges of each generation, we can work toward succeeding together.
Gen Z feels the most optimistic, with 73% stating they have a more positive outlook this year than last. However, millennials (43%) and Gen Xers (31%) arenât feeling as optimistic about the future.
To better understand the different attitudes and experiences of the generations in the workforce, FlexJobs surveyed more than 7,000 Gen Z, millennial, and Gen X professionals. The survey ran from August 2, 2023, to August 17, 2023. Read the results in FlexJobsâs Generations at Work Report below.
GENERATIONAL JOB MARKET OUTLOOK
Across the generations, the outlook on the job market and career prospects varies greatly. Gen Z is more optimistic about the job market, the ability to find remote work, and their overall career prospects. Millennials and Gen Xers, on the other hand, are less optimistic about all three. However, of all the generations, Gen Z is the least likely to make a career move in the next year.
Read the complete Fast Company article BY FLEXJOBS: https://www.fastcompany.com/90979527/myth-busted-generations-work
by Alex Funkhouser
Changing the clocks twice a year canât be a great idea when so many of us barely get enough sleep as it is.
As long as we have to fall back this weekend anyway, letâs use that extra hour to ponder the impossible-to-overstate importance of getting a good nightâs sleep. You could easily spend weeks scouring research on the link between poor sleep and poor health outcomes and still not get true appreciation for the vital role that uninterrupted shut-eye plays in our physical and mental well-being. Hell, spend one second looking at these anatomic scans of a sleep-deprived brain, and that could solidify the concept.
Beyond daylight saving, Calm’s survey contains some worrying revelations about people’s sleep habits. Over 40% of respondents said they slept less than six hours per night on average, and 18% said they slept less than five. Doctors typically recommend seven or more.
Just in time for daylight saving time, which ends Sunday, a new survey from meditation app Calm takes a broad look at sleep patterns in the United States and the U.K. to reveal how muchâor how littleâpeople are actually getting.
The findings are telling, with two-thirds of respondents saying they had difficultly adjusting to new time schedules after daylight saving time kicked in. Among those, 17% said it took them more than a week to get back to normal and another 7% said that their routines were âsignificantlyâ disrupted.
Read the complete Fast Company article BYÂ CHRISTOPHER ZARA https://www.fastcompany.com/90977844/daylight-saving-time-sleep-patterns-health-hours-night-calm
by Alex Funkhouser
CapitalGâs Lauren Illovsky talks about what sheâs seeing in the hiring market, and how return-to-office policies continue to redefine company culture.
As the head of talent at CapitalG, Alphabetâs $4 billion independent growth fund, Lauren Illovsky helps guide the firmâs portfolio companies as they scope out executive level hires and fill out their boards. Illovsky sees her role as absorbingâand solving forâany challenges theyâre facing in the talent department.
âI always tell them if somethingâs keeping you up in the middle of the night, donât let itâcall me, text me, send me an email, and letâs solve it together. I may not have the answer, but Iâll find someone who does,â Illovsky says. âI joke [that] my major is anything and everything executive talent [and] org design, and my minor is anything below the executive layer: broader team-building, HR, things like that.â
âWhen I look at leaders of companies that are resilient, they wake up in the morning and think about change,â Simon says. âThey think about whatâs changing in the environment, whatâs changing with their customers, whatâs changing with competition. The radar is constantly on and scanning for change.â
That expertise has been particularly crucial in the last few years, as tech companies big and small have cycled through acute periods of hiring and seemingly endless rounds of layoffs in the face of economic pressures. Since last fall, tech companies have cut more than 330,000 jobs, according to Layoffs.fyi.
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Read the complete Fast Company article BY PAVITHRA MOHAN: https://www.fastcompany.com/90972071/what-know-about-hiring-tech-right-now-according-head-of-talent-alphabets-growth-fund
