NSFW (the post your boss doesn't want you to read!)
Have you heard about The Great Resignation?
Management Professor from Texas A&M University, Anthony Klotz coined the phrase and the pandemic has helped to bring it into reality with a recent Microsoft study showing that 41% of people are considering leaving their employer within the next year. This coincides with many industries who got rid of staff needing to hire again as we come back to life and the gap is widening… FAST.
Guess slinging meat patties isn’t the dream for anyone these days… Image courtesy of Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/anotherguy252/
This feels indicative of all the feelings that have been spilling onto social media with increasing regularity since COVID disrupted all our lives. For many, the pandemic has provided the time and space to contemplate the future whilst also facing a serious threat to health. This helps provide a wider lens than we are used to and to question some of the elements of our lives that perhaps we had previously taken for granted or whose detrimental effects we have ignored.
It seems like whatever the reason, people are voting with their feet! Did this summer get you thinking about your career goals? One thing is for sure, with such a high demand for talent, now is a brilliant time to start making your career goals come true!
If you’re not sure if the grass is greener, here is a quick checklist to help diagnose problems that you might currently face:
⭐ You feel like your efforts aren’t recognised
⭐ Post-pandemic has ended the flexibility you were enjoying
⭐ You want to return to an office environment but your company got rid of theirs
⭐ No pay-rise in the last 18 months
⭐ Chances of promotion are nil.
⭐ You clash with your manager/the senior management team
⭐ You feel like your values no longer match with the company’s behaviours
⭐ You want a more meaningful career than just wealth accumulation
⭐ You’re bored/frustrated/thinking about the weekend on a Monday morning!
⭐ You feel you have potential which is not being tapped
⭐ Lack of training and development being offered
⭐ You feel like you are burning out under the weight of expectation and pressure
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