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…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining the world of work, especially how we work, and it’s top-of-mind for everyone from employers and job seekers to marketers and sellers. According to our Global Talent Trends report, released today, job posts mentioning AI or Generative AI (GAI) have more than doubled (2.2x) globally in the last two years…
Making the leap from music to LinkedIn Engineering with REACH My journey to LinkedIn and passion for coding came from an entirely different background than programming. After studying math and music in college, I performed as a professional violinist touring around the world and composing music for television and film for 15 years. During the…
There’s a lot of buzz right now about a new generation of tools, driven by AI or generative AI, that will make life better for everyone. Including recruiters. But we want to remind recruiters that there are already some great tools, also driven by AI, that can help them do their jobs faster and more…
Upskilling creates a path for everyone Retailers also view upskilling as critical to ensuring that people from all backgrounds have a chance to secure higher-paying jobs, the retail executives said at the conference. As part of an effort to develop nontraditional talent pipelines, Walmart has created learning opportunities for people looking to change industries or…
A recent article from the Harvard Business Review gets straight to the point: Your interview process is likely missing something. . . critical. “While much has been said in favor and against the value of interviews themselves,” writes HBR, “the typical Q&A job interview process fails to assess one of the most important, if not…
Ezekiel is one of more than 150,000 Amazon employees in 14 countries who have participated in Amazon Career Choice, an education and skills training program that helps workers move into new career opportunities at Amazon or at other companies. Launched in 2012, Career Choice is targeted to hourly workers (and in the U.S. workers are…