Kate Beckman

Executive Manager, Community & Insights @ripplematch | Tweeting about early career talent trends, Gen Z, and the future of work

[ELLIE X @heyellieday]

so i know this isn't a crypto enabled donation link but want to share anyway 😅. my mom is leading an effort in her church to rehouse an afghan refugee family. they are looking to raise ~$6k to cover rent, furnishing of an apt and more. you can donate via paypal currently.

[Magazine, News & Digital Journalism @NewhouseMND]

MAG alum @Kate_Beckman is looking for a Content Manager to join her at @ripplematch. Get more detaiils here: https://t.co/t2Qzw8uh7q

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

@meliarobin @ripplematch And as a personal testimonial, I joined RippleMatch as employee no. 8 in 2018 & have been proud to a be part of an inclusive & now-remote first team that’s incredibly innovative & committed to our mission. Here’s more on RippleMatch after our recent round! https://t.co/LAJsnzbbsf

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

@meliarobin 👋🏻 Wanted to get @ripplematch on your radar!
-We’re a startup working to transform the early career hiring space and increase representation
-We grew from 20 employees pre-COVID to 100 today
-we announced a new round of funding earlier this year and an almost $100m valuation

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

Salaries being at an “all-time high” doesn’t mean much when the cost of living and inflation is also at an all-time high.. it’s interesting we talk about salary increases as a product of “in-demand jobs” rather than it keeping up with the rising cost of living

[CNBC Make It @CNBCMakeIt]

College graduate starting salaries are at an all-time high—and these 10 majors earn the most https://t.co/dQHzkMb0tU

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

Any pizzerias feeling brave? Invite my father to review your pizza

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

Also linking to the author’s article with that exact opinion mentioned in the thread above:

[Kate Taylor @Kate_H_Taylor]

Also, everyone yelling at me in my mentions — I am not a McDonald's franchisee. I am a reporter. I have written my thoughts on solutions in this article, with the headline: "There's a simple solution for companies struggling to hire: Pay workers more" https://t.co/3WdbThaJU3

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

It’s time for corporations to listen to the *free market* and raise their pay for service workers. The pay for CEOs and software engineers have gone up all these years to compete with talent/demand, so this shouldn’t be any different!

[Kate Taylor @Kate_H_Taylor]

NEW: A McDonald's franchisee org says unemployment benefits are making it a nightmare for restaurants to hire https://t.co/t78lClLjGo

[Caroline Fairchild @CFair1]

Great insights here on the little discussed and dangerous side effects of burnout: "Work cultures that reward overwork are often the biggest culprits for holding women back from professional progress, not work-life balance" https://t.co/bx86kIcGFI

[Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis]

Reupping this excellent analysis by @byHeatherLong in the WaPo and here is a thread from the restaurant world that perfectly illustrates it:
Analysis | It’s not a ‘labor shortage.’ It’s a great reassessment of work in America.
https://t.co/SAa0fpWhh2
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https://t.co/cSF4ZSwe7k

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

It’s wild to me that coal miners are still framed as part of the middle class that needs to be ’saved’ when there are only 50,000 in the US... but there are 4.5M fast food workers that many don’t believe should have a living wage — they could be a thriving middle class!

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

If people are choosing “pandemic-era benefits” over jobs that don’t pay enough to live, that’s the free market at work. It’s time for corporations to compete for talent in the same way they pay extremely high salaries for tech & other white collar workers.

[POLITICO @politico]

For conservatives, the jobs report suggested that generous pandemic-era benefits are discouraging workers from taking jobs, while progressives argue corporate America has to offer higher wages
https://t.co/vaNozURUCU

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

Are you team work-from-anywhere, in-office life, or a mix of the two? Google was planning to require workers to come into the office at least 3 days a week, but just relaxed its rules. Customized work settings and flexibility will outlast the pandemic.

https://t.co/scdv8HCelb

[RippleMatch @ripplematch]

Don't miss @Kate_Beckman at URx Forward next week! She'll be joining two campus recruiting experts to speak about the COVID-Era Young Professional on May 6th at 1:35PM ET/10:35AM PT. #URx21 #URxForward

[NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney]

Black millennials aren't just falling further and further behind white millennials in building wealth for their families — they're falling further and further behind what *previous Black generations* amassed in wealth.

https://t.co/2nRxqRFFD3

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

Just read the news that Apple is opening a $1B RTP campus after a recruiter who lives in the area shared this article on LI. She said that the Raleigh/Durham area is becoming the Silicon Valley of the East & is ranked as one of the top 3 places to live:

https://t.co/G9hL3CI5IE

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

"For younger people who have been told to work hard, pay off your loans and someday you’ll get to enjoy your life, a lot of them are questioning that equation. What if they want to be happy right now?”

Great quote from @cmwalla. COVID showed that we can't procrastinate life.

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

For white-collar millennial workers, Pandora's Box has been opened. Interesting to read how some professionals in their late 20s & 30s are rejecting pre-pandemic normals and saying YOLO to the next stage of their careers/lives

@kevinroose for @nytimes

https://t.co/IOve1RrvZu

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

So! If you’d like to stay up to date with novel research I’m leading at RippleMatch on Gen Z college students/professionals, early career recruitment trends, and my own musings on what all this could mean for the future of work, I hope you’ll stick around ✨

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

👋🏻 Hi – it’s been awhile since I’ve tweeted, and even longer since I’ve tweeted with any real focus. I’ll be tweeting and sharing content all around the “Future of Work” for the foreseeable future, so this is your chance to keep following me or hit that unfollow. More context ⤵️

[Kate Beckman @Kate_Beckman]

That, coupled with the fact that I speak with 100s of talent professionals who work at innovative companies throughout the country, has me fascinated with what the future of work looks like in the US with the economic shift & geographic redistribution of talent post-COVID.