The Big Quit? No, Save Your Career without Leaving your Job

01/12/2021

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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4 million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and have remained abnormally high for several months, with a record-breaking 10.9 million open jobs at the end of July. The trend has not yet hit Europe in the forces like in the U.S.. Still, Personio recently conducted a study among Dutch workers which had ‘US-like results’, wherein it found that 46% of those surveyed planned to quit in the next six months to a year — five percent higher than the global percentage. You will hear several arguments about why jobs are hard to fill, from too much governmental support to zoom exhaustion. But one thing for sure is that the pandemic has caused many to reflect and reconsider their jobs. As a result, there has been some shifting of values and focus. Many started rethinking their careers, resulting in “The big resignation”. But is there a way to continue your career and life the way you want to without “quitting your job”? In this episode, we explore how you can do that.

Speaker Information:

DARCY EIKENBERG is an executive coach and speaker who’s worked with high-performance leaders and teams at The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, State Farm, Deloitte, and Hewlett-Packard, among other great companies. Her focus is career growth, employee engagement, and leadership development at conferences and for organizations around the world. She is the author of Bring Your Superpowers to Work: Your Guide to More Clarity, Confidence & Control, and blogs regularly on leadership and career issues at RedCapeRevolution.com. Her ideas have been shared in the Harvard Business Review, Thrive Global, CNN.com, The Ladders, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Forbes. Her new book is called: Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job, available on Amazon.