Career Practitioner Conversations with NCDA
Career Practitioner Conversations is a podcast series from the National Career Development Association (NCDA). NCDA provides research, resources, and support to career development professionals all over the world in their work to empower others to achieve their career and life goals. These conversations with industry leaders cover a wide variety of relevant topics for today's career practitioners. Legal Disclaimer: NCDA provides these episodes solely for educational and informational purposes. Opinions expressed in these episodes do not necessarily reflect the views of NCDA. NCDA disclaims any liability relating to any podcast content.
Career Practitioner Conversations with NCDA
Employer-Fit Algorithms and Corporate Culture with Dr. Bret Anderson
In this episode, Dr. Bret Anderson shares his work developing employer-fit algorithm tools and experience with a variety of corporate cultures with NCDA's Director of Professional Development, Melissa Venable. Bret is the President of h2 Communication, LLC, which provides job readiness training, executive coaching, and frontline leadership development.
The conversation describes a current shift toward an expectation for work/life balance, led in large part by employees. The challenges of cross-generational workplaces are also addressed. Bret shares examples and observations about how different industries are reacting. The importance of understanding how all of this is impacting the individuals we are working with, along with ways to extend and augment traditional theories to meet the demands of quickly changing career development needs.
Resources
- CAP42 Employer-Fit Algorithm Assessment
- Toxic Culture is Driving the Great Resignation - MIT Sloan Management Review
- Is Quiet Quitting Real? – GALLUP
- State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report - GALLUP
- Interview with David Larry Blustein on The Psychology of Working – eScholarship@BostonCollege
Top Predictors of Employee Turnover (Sull, Sull & Zweig, 2022):
- 10.4% - Toxic Corporate Culture
- 3.5% - Job insecurity and Reorganization
- 3.2% - High Levels of Innovation
- 2.9% - Failure to Recognize Employee Performance
- 1.8% - Poor Response to COVID-19