2025’s Key Career Move, Conquer Your Habits, Revenge Quitting - Jan 8, 2025

Hello Career Pro! Ready to own 2025? If not, no worries – we’ve got you covered. This year, "quiet hiring" is set make waves, and it could spark your next big career move. Let’s explore how this subtle trend is shaping the future of work.

On the agenda: 

🚀 2025’s Key Career Move: Why “quiet hiring” is accelerating.

😈 Revenge Quitting: Set to be 2025's biggest career trend.

👑 Conquer Your Habits: With this week’s freebie Habit Tracker.

SPOTLIGHT 

Why Quiet Hiring is the Key Strategic Career Move for 2025

Forget traditional job postings in 2025 — as it’s expected that companies will be increasingly adopting "quiet hiring”. A strategy that emphasizes internal talent mobility over external recruitment. This approach involves reallocating existing employees to new roles or expanding their responsibilities to meet evolving business needs.

Why the Shift?

• Cost Efficiency: Hiring externally can be expensive. By focusing on current staff, organizations save on recruitment and training expenses.

• Talent Shortages: With labor shortages and skills gaps topping the agenda for many HR departments, leveraging internal talent becomes a practical solution.

• Employee Development: Quiet hiring offers employees opportunities to acquire new skills and advance their careers, fostering engagement and retention.

Real-World Examples:

• DWS Group: The asset management firm has implemented a "juniorisation programme," focusing on promoting and training internal talent to reduce recruitment costs.

• Blackstone: Through its Career Pathways program, Blackstone is developing talent internally, particularly in its data center operations, to address industry-specific skill shortages

☝ Stay Ahead: Quiet hiring signals that companies are watching for employees ready to take on new responsibilities and upskill. Adaptability and continuous learning are key. Take initiative, seek growth opportunities, and position yourself as indispensable.

Understanding and navigating the quiet hiring trend can significantly impact your career trajectory.

For more insights on how to enhance your professional growth, check out this comprehensive guide on CareerAddict:

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NEWS THAT MATTERS

🔶 Why ‘Revenge Quitting’ is set to be 2025's Biggest Career Trend

A brightening job market is expected to prompt many disillusioned employees to finally seek better opportunities. Should you be one of them? [Bazaar]

🔶 What the Future of Work Looks Like in 2025, According to an Ancient Technology

The future of work will see shifts toward flexibility, lifelong learning, and a wellness-focused culture. [Fast Company]

🔶 What Is ‘Microretirement’? Gen Z and Millennials Spawn New Career Trend To Help With Woes

A growing cohort of young employees in the workforce are taking a “microretirement” — also referred to as an “adult gap year” — for months or even years at a time to fight corporate burnout. [MSN]

🔶 Gen Z Prefers ‘Employer for Life’ to ’Job for Life

Under 27s are keen to stay with a company for the long term if it offers career development and a good work-life balance, researchers have found. [The Times]

WEEKLY FREEBIE

Maintain Good Habits Throughout 2025

Until a behavior becomes, well, a habit, it helps to have little reminders so that you’re consciously making an effort until it comes naturally.

Our Habit Tracker can provide those reminders: simply pop in the things you’d like to do differently, and keep the sheet in front of you during the workday, ticking off your progress!

BREAKROOM

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Created with care by the CareerAddict team.