The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

If you’re struggling to find full-time employees for some of your company’s most critical roles, there could be a reason beyond the Big Stay and other macroeconomic factors: Many workers are simply choosing to be freelancers.

“Companies today are facing a big talent-management challenge,” writes Harvard Business Review. “They simply do not have the capabilities they need in-house to transform their offerings, processes, and infrastructures — and they’re increasingly unable to persuade highly skilled professionals to come on board full-time, despite making attractive offers. In many fields — particularly technology, data sciences, and machine learning — the people with the most sought-after skills are freelancers.”

Upwork found in a recent study that 38% of U.S. workers have chosen to work as contract, freelance, temporary, or gig workers, while Gartner predicts that these types of independent professionals may make up 35% to 40% of the global workforce by 2025.

To learn more about what makes freelancers tick — and best practices for bringing them aboard your company as part of a “blended workforce” — be sure to check out the top spot on our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals.

And further down our list, you can find out why your business should build its culture like a product; why the cost of “poaching” talent is skyrocketing; and why some think it’s high time to think of work as the new doctor’s office.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. Highly Skilled Professionals Want Your Work But Not Your Job (Harvard Business Review)

2. Instead of Perpetuating the Cycle of ‘Advice’ for Women, Let’s Tackle the Root Causes of Inequality (Laurie Ruettimann on LinkedIn)

3. Build Your Culture Like a Product — Lessons from Asana’s Head of People (First Round Review)

4. The Cost of Poaching Talent Just Hit a Record High (Inc.)

5. How Overwhelm Can Stall Learning (Jess Almlie on LinkedIn)

6. What Startups Are Getting Wrong About Interviewing (Steve Bartel on LinkedIn)

7. If You Think the Current Ways of Sourcing Will Be Around in a Couple of Years, It’s Time to Wake Up (Adam Kovacs on LinkedIn)

8. How to Welcome ‘Undisclosed’ Identities at Work (Lead with Inclusion)

9. 4 Ways That AI Could Transform Healthcare Roles (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

10. Work Is the New Doctor’s Office (Time)

Here is the must-listen podcast:

Leveraging Podcasts to Attract and Retain Talent with Tannum Sullivan (Throw Out the Playbook)