Sixty-five percent of workers say they want to microshift. That number comes straight from Owl Labs’ 2025 State of Hybrid Work Report, which surveyed 2,000 full-time U.S. workers. And when you look at certain groups, that number climbs even higher: 73% of millennials and 69% of Gen Z workers are already looking for ways to…
Something interesting is happening in workplaces right now. Pay raises are getting smaller. A WTW survey of roughly 31,000 organizations found that companies predicted salary budget increases of just 3.9% for 2025, down from 4.5% in 2023. Companies are tightening budgets. And yet workers are refusing to budge on what they expect from their jobs….
You nailed the interview. The conversation flowed, you had great answers, the hiring manager seemed genuinely excited. Then… nothing. Days pass. Then a week. Then two. If this has happened to you recently, you’re not alone. According to recent data, 61% of candidates experience post-interview ghosting, and that number has climbed by 9 percentage points…
There’s a number buried in a new workforce report that should make every HR leader, economist, and career coach stop and take notice. Fifty-five percent. That’s the share of all poly-employed Americans, meaning people working multiple simultaneous jobs, who are now under 28 years old. Workforce management firm Deputy released “The Big Shift 2026” on…
You spent an hour stuffing your resume with every keyword from the job description. You hit “submit.” Nothing happened. Sound familiar? Here’s what nobody told you: the ATS system you were trying to beat in 2022 is not the same system screening your resume today. The rules changed. The old keyword game is over —…
You’ve heard of quiet quitting. You may have even tried it. But something has shifted in the last year, and the old playbook isn’t working anymore. Quiet quitting was a conscious act. You drew a line, did your job, and went home. It felt like reclaiming some power in a work culture that kept asking…
If you’ve been reading job postings lately and noticed a strange new phrase showing up, you’re not imagining things. “Human-in-the-loop” or HITL is jumping out of AI research papers and landing inside real job descriptions at companies like Zillow, Vertex, and ClearCaptions. And it’s not just tech companies using it. This shift matters for you…
The career advice internet has spent the last two years telling job seekers to let AI write their resumes. Use ChatGPT to tailor your bullets. Let a bot auto-apply to 500 jobs overnight. Optimize everything for the algorithm. It worked. Sort of. Applications surged. Resumes got shinier. Cover letters sounded more polished than ever. But…
For years, the conversation about automation has followed the same script. Knowledge workers worry about AI. Writers, coders, lawyers, and analysts keep a nervous eye on the latest language model releases. Meanwhile, the assumption has been that physical, hands-on work is harder to automate and therefore safer. That assumption is only partially right, and the…
Job seekers are overwhelmed. Hiring managers are overwhelmed. And right in the middle of that mutual exhaustion sits a product category that promised to fix everything: the auto-apply bot. Tools like LazyApply, LoopCV, Massive, and Jobsolv have built real followings. The pitch is compelling — let AI handle the grunt work of submitting applications while…
