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….
Healthcare professionals are already facing staffing shortages and strain, and GAI isn’t likely to shake things up — they’ll be largely unaffected by GAI, with over three-fourths (76%) of members there insulated, more than in any other industry. On the flip side, the technology, information, and media industry is likely to see the greatest disruption,…
Behind the Scenes with Prompts Similar to others looking to leverage GAI, we were learning how to author large language model (LLM) prompts and quickly discovered that prompt workflows are quite involved, each requiring a few fundamental building blocks. Each new iteration of a prompt required a few hours of inference to generate sample responses,…
In a recent article, Harvard Business Review doesn’t mince words about the expected impact of generative AI: “Calling GAI revolutionary is no hyperbole,” HBR writes. “Business leaders should view it as a general-purpose technology akin to electricity, the steam engine, and the internet. But although the full potential of those other technologies took decades to…
“Hiring is a team sport,” John Vlastelica, the CEO of Recruiting Toolbox, told a group of talent acquisition leaders at LinkedIn’s recent Talent Connect conference. Why hiring managers need to partner with recruiters, and how to get them more involved, was the focus of two breakout sessions John conducted at the conference. About 200 participants…
When generative AI made its splashy public debut a year ago, emotions ran high: People were gripped with excitement, worry, and fear. And then more excitement. The new technology so completely captured the workplace’s imagination that a recent LinkedIn study of 29,000 professionals found 90% were very curious about AI. But 39% also confessed they…
“Hot Jobs has been a great initiative,” said Suzan Vulaj, NBCUniversal’s VP of global talent acquisition, “to get in front of the employees, create awareness of our internal opportunities, and demystify the internal application process.” The listings include the names of the recruiter, links to their email address, the hiring manager contact information, and the…