How Landing a Job Can Be Different for Men and Women
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Here's your Money Briefing for Thursday, September 2nd. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. Many companies are struggling to find workers, and that could give job seekers an advantage. But that advantage rests on their ability to successfully navigate the process, from identifying a job they want to applying all the way to salary negotiation. And it turns out men and women tend to go through the process differently and often meet with different results.
And so I constantly tell women, stretch yourself. You know, there's a level of bravery that's associated with applying for a job that you're not fully qualified for.
Coming up, we'll talk about the differences between how men and women approach finding and landing a job with HR executive and career coach Amy Zimmerman. That's after the break.
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Trying to find a job isn't easy. There's finding a position that suits your experience with the right salary range and work-life balance is important too. But how you approach each stage of the job-seeking process can make or break your chances of being hired. Amy Zimmerman is a career coach and chief people officer at the FinTech Startup Relay Payments.
How does the current labor market give job seekers an advantage?
She's been studying how men and women approach the job-seeking process differently each step of the way. Amy, thank you so much for being with us.
Thanks for having me, JR.
So Amy, let's start with what do we know about how men and women approach applying for jobs differently?
You know, so there's a ton of research and my experience certainly supports it, but there is a good bit of data that men and women approach applying for jobs very differently. I think there's, you know, certainly the whole nurture thing with regard to how men are raised versus or how boys are raised into men and likewise for women. And I think there's a level of confidence. I think there's a level of competition. I think there's a number of things that play into it. But there's a ton of research that suggests that men will typically apply for jobs that they are potentially 50% unqualified for as kind of a stretch versus women, and I would say also people of color, other minorities. that either don't have the same level of confidence or just not comfortable stretching in the same way and usually require checking almost every box to feel comfortable enough to apply for the same job.
And so what is the effect of that?
I think there's a level of career opportunity and growth that plays in. I think it's got a big part to do with how people negotiate for salaries in terms of worth and comfort and how people stack up against peers. I think bias plays into it and sometimes it starts with the person. I don't know if I'm qualified for the job, therefore I'm not going to apply for it. But what I would challenge people on is if you were 100% qualified for a job, you probably should be applying for the next job. Because where's the challenge? Where's the stretch if you check every single box?
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