![]() ![]() “I have clients that are in such need of people that if they weren’t looking at people who had resume gaps before, now they are.” “I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and it’s the tightest labor market I’ve ever seen,” Tom Gimbel, head of LaSalle Network, a national staffing firm, said. Experiences that might have once hurt a job seeker’s prospects, like having taken time off for child care, are being forgiven. ![]() Some parts of the United States are seeing significant gaps between job openings and job seekers - Nebraska, for example, has 69,000 positions unfilled and 19,300 unemployed people. The share requiring a bachelor’s degree fell to 8.3% from 11.4%. The share of ZipRecruiter posts that require “no prior experience” has jumped to 22.9% this year from 12.8% in 2020. ![]() The supply-demand curve of the labor market is working in their favor, and employers are growing less choosy. If quitters think they can punch back at their old bosses without fear of alienating potential future employers, they might be right. Ianniello left her job and started “Corporate Quitter,” a podcast all about ditching the 9-to-5 lifestyle. They’re tweeting screenshots of texts to their bosses declaring they have quit. People are celebrating their resignations in Instagram reels or “QuitToks.” They’re turning to the Reddit forum R/antiwork, where subscriptions ballooned this year, to gloat about being free from their 9-to-5 jobs. “My mental health welcoming me back after leaving c*rporate america,” read the caption on Knighten’s video posted in September, which featured her wearing a hat that said, “I Hate It Here,” and dancing to Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next.”Īmerica’s quitting rate - the percentage of workers voluntarily leaving their jobs - is historically high, reaching 3% this fall. And they wanted their TikTok followers to know. For Tiffany Knighten, it was finding out that a teammate’s annual salary was more than $10,000 higher than hers for a role at her level. For Giovanna Gonzalez, it was those three little letters, RTO, coming from her investment management boss. Capital Gazette eNewspaper Home Page Close Menuįor Gabby Ianniello, it was the blisters from putting on stilettos every morning for her real estate job, which had called employees back to the office last fall. ![]()
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