Roz Francuz-Harris, vice president of talent acquisition at Zillow, has a simple reason for using AI so much in her work: “I love my family,” she told the audience during her recent Talent Connect talk. “AI is one of the tools I leverage to get time back to be with them.” But Roz — who…
Have you ever taken a moment to really think about how much of your life is spent working? If you’re not in the mood to do some quick math, a recent article from The Atlantic has numbers at hand: “The typical career,” they write about U.S. workers, “is about 80,000 hours long, or one-sixth of…
2. De-emphasize formal education When Kara asks hiring managers what skills they are looking for, soft skills like resilience, planning, and organizing are often top of mind — “things you don’t learn in a specific four-year degree program,” she said. And some groups of professionals have faced more limited access to higher education. For example,…
The six clusters break down roughly as follows: Talent Acquisition (top skills include recruiting, sourcing, and interviewing) Talent Management, EX, and HR Tech (top skills include employee engagement, human resource information systems [HRIS], and HR management) L&D, DEI, and Culture (top skills include training and development, change management, and leadership development) Total Rewards (top skills…
Recently, I put down a deposit on the cutest Tibetan terrier puppy I’ve ever seen, and I’m going to pick him up on Boxing Day (that’s the day after Christmas for all the non-British readers). We’re so excited to welcome the little fella into the family, but I also appreciate that with three kids under…
It’s one thing to recognize the value of a skills-first strategy. Adopting one is a different story — many companies are struggling to actually put a skills-first model in place. A lot goes into creating a skills-based hiring strategy, regardless of whether organizations are looking for outside talent or seeking to promote from within. Companies…
Hiring is a team sport. Savvy recruiting leaders and recruiters who want to reinforce this partnership are doing something unusual. In addition to surveying hiring managers to get feedback on recruiting effectiveness, they’re now surveying recruiters to get feedback on hiring manager effectiveness. What? Yes! The hiring managers who get top talent don’t suck. They…
It wasn’t that long ago that industry experts were ringing alarm bells about the pandemic’s impact on women in the U.S. workforce. Many even dubbed the moment a “she-cession.” “Three years ago,” writes The Washington Post, “as COVID-19 was ravaging the nation, childcare closures and remote schooling disproportionately forced women out of their jobs. Economists…
Successful hiring often hinges on one key element: the interview. If an interview goes well, there’s a much better chance you’ll hire the candidate. If the interview goes south . . . well, we all know how that can turn out. The interview process is so important that when Gem surveyed talent acquisition specialists at…
Employee development is top of mind at many organizations, with most just starting out on their skills journey. The majority of companies (94%) are in the early and middle stages of upskilling and reskilling initiatives: ideating, selling to stakeholders, assembling a team, and developing and activating their program. Organizations at this stage often face the…
In October, our head of Trust and Privacy, Oscar Rodriguez, announced our aspirational goal to have 100 million verified members by 2025. Today, we’re taking steps toward that goal by expanding our partnership with Persona to make identity verification available to millions of new people in Argentina, Bangladesh, Chile, Columbia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru,…
This decision layer for serving the ML models results is integrated within the existing review assignment and prioritization tooling at LinkedIn. The content review queue uses an intelligent review assignment framework which uses these scores and few other static parameters to intelligently prioritize human review items. Advantages of the new approach Our legacy framework used…
For over a decade, I’ve published my forecast of the top 10 workplace trends that will impact how we work and live for the upcoming year. What do I see coming in 2024? Well, there’s clearly some economic uncertainty as we head into 2024, and we’ll see this reflected in the workplace as well. We’ll…
This year’s Talent Connect was simply abuzz about emerging technology and a skills-first approach to building a workforce, as industry leaders from around the world gathered to talk about the latest trends — and challenges — in talent acquisition and talent development. The annual gathering had a dynamic group of speakers, from the Rt. Hon….