If you’re like most learning or talent professionals, there’s probably one New Year’s resolution that shows up on your list year after year: Make more time to learn. It’s so important that the L&D professionals we surveyed for last year’s Workplace Learning Report ranked “prioritize your own learning” as one of their top six priorities. …
Any conversation about the future of work must include Gen Z. Born between 1997 and 2012, Gen Z is the youngest cohort in today’s workforce. While Gen Z’s influence will only continue to grow, recruiters are struggling both to attract them and retain them, with some recruiters even being ghosted by Gen Zers during the…
Visual learners and data visualization nerds, have we ever got a treat for you: a look back at some of the biggest trends and stories of 2023, all in animated charts. You can find the full story by McKinsey & Company at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals, but…
We love training highly intelligent, analytical people on how to become great interviewers. You can see their wheels turning while candidates talk. So much curiosity! Each story provides an endless number of paths to pursue, data points to gather, and follow-up questions to ask. The problem is that there are too many options. Left to…
Employees who want to boost their performance, ace year-end reviews, and move up in the company just need to work more hours and burn that midnight oil, right? Not so fast. It turns out, one of the best ways for workers (talent pros included) to get ahead is to. . . take a break. Beach…
It’s that time of year when word nerds around the world gather, comb through the data, and pick a Word of the Year. Merriam-Webster chose authentic as its 2023 word, because in an era of deep fakes and post-truth, what could be more golden than the truth? The Oxford University Press swerved in a different…
Over the last few years, the hiring market has been quite a wild ride. But as talent teams’ priorities have constantly shifted, one thing remains constant: the importance of a solid employer brand. Whether you’re focused on attracting qualified candidates or retaining the talent you already have, employer branding can be the make-or-break factor in…
A flip-flopping economy always brings budget palpitations. But take heart — learning and development (L&D) teams have reason for confidence. You’ve already gained C-suite influence by leading your organizations through roller-coaster times. And the continued need for agility gives you a strong business case to keep investing in people’s spirits and skills. Here are some…
Internal mobility sounds great in theory. But in practice, it’s often hard. Employees can struggle to find internal opportunities. Hiring managers may be reluctant to let their best talent go. And HR may not have all the systems in place to make transitions with ease. Despite being complicated, internal mobility can be a key to…
Co-authors: Arjun Mohnot, Jenchang Ho, Anthony Quigley, Xing Lin, Anil Alluri, Michael Kuchenbecker LinkedIn operates one of the world’s largest Apache Hadoop big data clusters. These clusters are the backbone for storing and processing extensive data volumes, empowering us to deliver essential features and services to members, such as personalized recommendations, enhanced search functionality, and…
3. Offer competitive compensation and benefits Compensation isn’t always the most important consideration when evaluating job opportunities, but it does matter. Gen Z workers are the most likely to feel underpaid: Over half (57%) think they earn less than they deserve. Competitive compensation can help you attract the youngest generation of workers — so long…
Co-authors: Max Kanat-Alexander and Grant Jenks Today we are open-sourcing the LinkedIn Developer Productivity & Happiness Framework (DPH Framework) – a collection of documents that describe the systems, processes, metrics, and feedback systems we use to understand our developers and their needs internally at LinkedIn. Now more than ever, developers are navigating so much change and…
Here we are winding down the clock on 2023, and some companies are already starting to recruit interns for the summer of 2025. Yes, you read that right — summer of 2025. That’s 18 months from now. “The advanced timeline,” writes The Wall Street Journal, “means that college students who may have taken just one…
Figure 3: This illustration summarizes how the AutoML framework automates the model training, development, and deployment steps The AutoML framework trains classifiers, experimenting with multiple model architectures in parallel. It performs a systematic search over a range of hyperparameters, optimization approaches, and models, saving data scientists the effort of trying different algorithms manually. The AutoML…