The Last Repair Shop Pull out your hankies for this deeply moving — and joyous — documentary short about the largest remaining workshop of its kind in the U.S., the musical instrument repair shop for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Created in 1959, the workshop maintains and repairs the 80,000 instruments played by students…
As L&D professionals, we pride ourselves on our ability to create engaging and impactful learning experiences. We are experts at breaking the big picture into learnable chunks and knowing how to design programs that enable learning. We can write a learning outcome with our eyes closed and we are getting better at measuring effectiveness. One…
When’s the last time you committed yourself to brushing up on a professional skill only never to actually get around to doing it? You know your career would benefit if you could just find the time to explore new ideas and learn new skills, but your day-to-day responsibilities take up every minute of your workday. …
Interestingly, the skills that best predict internal movers revolve around collaboration, inclusion, and adaptability — the abilities to connect with coworkers, make everyone feel included, and drive change on an organizational scale. If you’re trying to improve internal mobility and retention, these are the skills you’ll want to look for in internal and external candidates…
When it comes to skills-first hiring, many companies talk a good game. They announce they’re dropping degree requirements and insist they’re evaluating candidates based on all they have to offer. But a recent study by The Burning Glass Institute and Harvard Business School found that even though these companies talk the talk, they don’t always…
Today, we unveiled a new report that sheds light on the habits of top-performing sales professionals: Deep Sales: The B2B Sales Playbook to Boost Revenue in 2024. Over the past few years, B2B buyers and sellers have had to adapt to countless shifts in ways of working, and old playbooks are no longer effective in…
“I like to start with an unusual, thought-provoking question — something that shakes it up and throws the candidate off a bit. I want to see how they react.” This comment, from an investor I recently trained, sums up a common but fundamentally flawed approach to interviewing. And guess what this investor’s top complaint was,…
People from historically marginalized groups are underrepresented in every level of company leadership, creating a sizable opportunity gap. For example, women hold nearly half (48%) of entry-level roles, but only 40% of manager roles and 28% of C-suite roles. Their representation drops at each job level. We see a similar trend for men of color,…
Today we shared information and resources about the policies and technologies we have in place to keep conversations professional during elections and at all times on our platform. You can read more in this post from Wei Tu, our VP of Trust Engineering, and on our LinkedIn Company Page. Source link
ChatGPT, Copilot, and other GAI tools are all the rage these days, helping workers across industries with everything from writing cover letters and editing job descriptions to building decks and obtaining career advice. Yes, you read that last one correctly. According to a new survey conducted by Workplace Intelligence and INTOO, many workers — specifically…
At a time when companies are urging everyone to do more with less, most recruiters have to-do lists so long they’d make the most organized person wilt. Each day dawns with reqs to fill, interviews to schedule, and resumes to be screened — to say nothing of the emails from candidates, messages from hiring managers,…
Generational stereotypes, like reheated pizza, burn quickest at the edges. For the first time in history, the labor force is made up of five generations of employees. Never before has such a wide range of perspectives and experiences been represented in the workplace. But rather than celebrate our diversity, we deride our differences. Generational stereotypes…
What is the ROI on learning? At a time when learning and development budgets remain relatively flat and spending has come under increased scrutiny, this question feels more urgent than ever. It’s one of the reasons the L&D team at MJH Life Sciences, a healthcare publishing company based in Cranbury, New Jersey, looked more closely…
Three in four hiring professionals (74%) hope that generative AI can automate repetitive tasks to prioritize more strategic work. That’s why LinkedIn Recruiter is rolling out AI-Assisted Messages to help you personalize at scale, increase efficiency, and boost candidate engagement. Once you’ve selected a candidate in Recruiter, the AI model will take into account all…