2024 is coming to an end. Start the new year with a fresh perspective and new ideas that address the needs of employers and the workplace.
In 2025, there are indications that hiring will remain competitive at the executive/senior level. One area you will want to focus on is highlighting your Emotional Intelligence – self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
Technical experience is often a screening requirement and AI is becoming very prominent however, strong Emotional Intelligence can be a true differentiator.
Your ability to manage human and business issues with diplomacy, especially during rapid or unexpected change will help you stand out in the future workplace and job market.
In this week’s summary you’ll learn about:
- 20+ Top Job Search Articles by the Pros
- Here’s where to explain your gap in employment
- 6 Reasons You Feel Judged During Job Interviews
- 7 Job Interview Mistakes To Fix Right Now
- Hiring Trends Leading Into 2025
- Pre-Employment Screening Trends
- 7 LinkedIn Changes Captured In the Wild
- 8 Changes to the LinkedIn Algorithm To Know About
- 2024 Workforce & Economic Charts
- Stop Assessing Personality Traits In Performance Reviews
- Overtime Law Overturned And Lost Pay Raises
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JOB SEARCH
Top Job Search Articles of 2024 | The Job Mob
Over 20 job search experts list their top job search articles for 2024. This is definitely one you are going to want to bookmark and refer to often!
Don’t Explain Your Gap In The Cover Letter, Do THIS Instead | Sarah Johnston
50% of hiring managers don’t read cover letters. See the workaround that can change the perception of a gap in your work history.
INTERVIEWING
Feeling judged in the hiring process. Here Are 6 Reasons Why | Dr. Heather Maietta
First impressions can be lasting impressions and often you just have one chance to win over an interviewer. These 6 reasons you feel judged (and how to reframe or overcome them) will surely help you make a better first impression.
7 Interview Mistakes That Are Costing You Interviews & Offers | Austin Belcak
Interviewing is a skill and you can get better (even if you think you’re already pretty good). These 7 simple interview mistakes and their fixes will absolutely help you. I’m pretty sure #2 will be eye-opening.
RECRUITING TRENDS
Hiring Trends from 2024 That Will Carry Over Into 2025 | Kelli Hrivnak
Read and/or watch these 5 recruiting trends and adjust your job search accordingly. For example, stop overwhelming recruiters by using AI to mass-apply to jobs; and look for companies in your geographic area to invest more in building their employer brand awareness (so they can hire more on-site employees).
The State of Pre-Employment Screening: 2025 Trends Shaping the Future of Talent Assessment | HiPeople
For a really deep dive into the lives of recruiters, this report asked 10 recruiting experts to address trends, metrics that matter, bias in screening and more. A couple of key things that stuck out were using references earlier in the recruiting process, a greater focus on soft skills and resiliency, the importance of the candidate experience, and an increase in using case studies during assessments/interviews.
7 Feature(s) & Changes Captured in the Wild (This week) in 2024 | Kevin D. Turner
Free Premium for active-duty service members, video notifications, vertical video in feed, and more! LinkedIn makes frequent changes (247 this year) and Kevin is keeping track with the help of eagle-eyed users.
Crack the Code: The LinkedIn Algorithm Has Changed Again | Richard van der Blom
Here are the top 3 things you need to know and the post includes 8. As you can see, video makes a move here too!
1️⃣ Engagement is Down (-10%) — Reach has stabilized, but comments, likes, and shares are dropping.
2️⃣ Vertical Video is KING — +165% increase vs last year; TikTok-style content is winning.
3️⃣ AI-Generated Comments Hurt You — Using AI-generated comments impacts your own content’s visibility.
WORKPLACE
2024: A Year In Charts | McKinsey
This is an interesting snapshot by McKinsey of key issues in 2024. AI, talent markets, global economy, sustainability, equity, and health. One chart was particularly interesting. “Women continue to confront microaggressions in the workplace as often today as several years ago.” These were the areas:
- Any competence-based microaggression
- Having judgment questioned in area of expertise
- Being mistaken for someone at a much lower level
- Being interrupted or spoken over more than others
Then this article popped up in a discussion on LinkedIn. “88 percent of high-performing women receive feedback on their personality during performance reviews — compared with 12 percent of high-performing men” according to a study by Textio. The main point of this article is to eliminate personality traits from ALL performance reviews and replace them with real, documented feedback on their behaviors which will actually help them perform better.
306 Ohio State Employees Just Lost Their Pay Raises. It Could Happen to You | The Job Hopper
Never mess with employees’ paychecks! “The Ohio State University gave 306 employees raises to move their pay above the overtime threshold on Nov. 1, only to revoke those raises a few weeks later after the court decision.” Here’s what you need to know, in most of the United States, companies can take back a pay raise for any reason they want, as long as they’re not discriminating against you. (Montana is the only state where this isn’t allowed.).
JOB SEARCH VISUAL
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Hannah Morgan speaks and writes about job search and career strategies. She founded CareerSherpa.net to educate professionals on how to maneuver through today’s job search process. Hannah was nominated as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Job Search and Careers and is a regular contributor to US News & World Report. She has been quoted by media outlets, including Forbes, USA Today, Money Magazine, Huffington Post, as well as many other publications. She is also author of The Infographic Resume and co-author of Social Networking for Business Success.
