Career Practitioner Conversations with NCDA

Employer-Fit Algorithms and Corporate Culture with Dr. Bret Anderson

NCDA Season 3 Episode 1

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

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

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