When change happens so fast it makes you dizzy, you usually have two choices: You can curl up on the couch with a cup of hot tea and wish everything would stay the same. Or you can view change as an exciting opportunity to evolve and grow. Futurist April Rinne, author of Flux: 8 Superpowers…
Bias in interviewing is a massive problem. Not only does it trample your DEI goals, it leads to terrible hiring decisions — hiring the person you like vs. the person who can get the job done. How do you know if you are bringing bias into an interview? Here’s an easy test. Put your fingers…
Talent changes are a difficult, but necessary and regular part of managing our business. The changes we shared with our team today will result in a reduction of approximately 668 roles across our engineering, product, talent and finance teams. While we are adapting our organizational structures and streamlining our decision making, we are continuing to…
When Jacinda Ardern became the prime minister of New Zealand in 2017 at the age of 37, she also became the world’s youngest female head of government. Where did she turn for leadership principles as she led her island nation through the pandemic, an economic downturn, a volcanic eruption, and a terrorist attack on two…
We went through a proof of concept for various security risk management platforms to find a solution that would help us effectively address the challenges that we were facing. We selected one that specialized in risk management for both organizational and third parties. Lift and Shift Phase We began by adopting a lift and shift…
The skills necessary to do our jobs are changing rapidly. “A generation ago,” writes Harvard Business Review, “the half-life of the value of a skill was approximately 26 years. Now the half-life is often less than five years.” As a result, companies around the globe are pumping more than $380 billion into learning and development…
Today our VP – Legal, Digital Safety, Patrick Corrigan shared an update highlighting the takeaways of our biannual Transparency Report for the first half of 2023. He published the article below on-platform which can also be found here. ————————————————————————————————————- Today we published LinkedIn’s Transparency Report for the first half of 2023. The report includes government…
Upskilling and career advancement are among people’s top workplace priorities this year but only three in 10 employees say that someone at work encourages their growth. What’s more, only 26% say their organization challenged them to learn a new skill and 15% say their organization encouraged them to move to a new role. Career coaching…
SHRM defines performance management as “the process of maintaining or improving employee job performance through the use of performance assessment tools, coaching, and counseling as well as providing continuous feedback.” But far too many organizations stop at the first part — performance assessment — and miss the opportunity to actually improve employee performance. Only about…
“Not only is this process more intuitive and faster,” Hari said, “it directly delivers on our goal to ensure we connect every member of the global workforce to opportunity. This is because with generative AI we can search across all our data and make connections to find the right candidate based on everything we know…
This post is based on a recent Redefining Work podcast with Lars Schmidt and NASA’s April Jordan. You can listen to the full episode here. NASA is pretty clear about the allure of a diverse workforce. Their take: Diversity drives innovation — some bold words for an agency that’s about as innovative as they come. …
Co-Authors: Chau Vu and Whitney Parsons In March 2020, the world turned upside down—the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, and life as we knew it was altered completely. Offices closed, we stopped traveling, and we had to change the way we interacted with others. In the face of this disaster, businesses were challenged…
Though the labor market has cooled, many companies are still struggling to attract and retain the talent they need. Job seekers in many industries continue to have plenty of choices when it comes to where they want to work. A great candidate experience can help you engage more job seekers and sway your top-choice candidates…
Figure 1 – Example of an Embeddings Graph Embedding based retrieval (EBR) is a method that is used at the early stages of a recommendation or search system. It efficiently searches among a very large set of possible items (such as jobs or feed posts), returning items that are relevant to the request based on…