Are Job Seekers Getting Choosier? Perspectives from Dawn and Pamela Nabors, CEO of Career Source
Our Business Writing Intern Victoria Carman wrote a piece about Episode 3, “Local Businesses and How Career Source Helps,” on the Hiring Happy Humans podcast. Victoria discusses key insights from this conversation about the priorities of job seekers and the changing ways they are approaching the interview process. You can listen to the full episode on Spotify here.
In the third episode of the Hiring Happy Humans podcast, Dawn Sipley speaks with CEO Pamela Nabors. They speak about the job market and their predictions of it when it comes to the future of hiring. One of the points that they bring up (Timestamp 16:45) is the fact that people searching in the job market are becoming “pickier” with the jobs that they choose. They both agree on the idea of there being more options, so people ask more in depth questions about the job that they are thinking of applying for. They ask about the environment that they could be working in and the benefits that they could get, not just the location and the pay. I believe that these changing priorities are allowing both employers and employees to be happier in their workplace environments.
With the workplace environment becoming more personal and identity-led, people are shifting jobs a lot faster. But they are also happier, which increases production of businesses overall. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, productivity has increased from 1.6 to 2.1 since 2020. The pandemic, which occurred in 2020, is what ultimately shifted the job market in the first place. Since this change, productivity has increased dramatically. I believe that part of this can be attributed to these in depth questions meant to find the kind of environment that people want to work in. Personally, one of my main requirements would be a flexible schedule. Maintaining a work-life balance is important to me, and given the fact that I am constantly traveling and doing things, this is a very high priority to me. One of my other main necessities is good communication. I want to know if I am doing something the way it is expected to be done.
