Why Recruiting, And The Job Market, Is Going To Get Harder: Trust

Recruiting is going to get more difficult as talented people negotiate new ways of working, argues Kevin Wheeler at ERE.net. When once a company could hire John Q. Smith, now maybe John says “Yeah, I’ll work for you, but I don’t want to quit my freelance business either.” Or “…but I want flextime.” Or “…but I’m on the board of Startup X and I want to help that company grow too.”

Wheeler writes:

Negotiating the conditions of employment, hedging one job with another, being wary of accepting full-time jobs that put at risk other work or that compromise skills—those are becoming the normal patterns for accomplished professionals.

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