Company loyalty is out – touting yourself is in

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Waning are the days when employees would brag about the businesses they work for. Now, they’re prioritising themselves.

, which measures employee workplace experience, has seen this in action while searching for new talent for his own company. This manifests often on LinkedIn, he adds, where many workers now choose to put their name and skills in their profile titles, pushing details of their current employers much lower down the page. This is in stark contrast to the traditional approach, where users head up their profiles with job title and company first.

Increased globalisation along with rapidly developing technology is driving the shift to a skills-based job market, believes Experts say workers are increasingly willing to walk away from employers they once would have bragged about on their CVs Taylor says the pandemic has also driven workers to demand more autonomy in the workplace. “People want more control over their work-life balance,” he says. “There is much less emphasis on staying loyal and ‘sticking out’ for a job and much more emphasis on finding a job that matches workers’ own needs and preferences,” he adds.

 

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