Business leaders acknowledge that employees will need new skills to work with AI, yet only a third (38%) of US executives are helping their workforce become AI-literate, our new research finds*. Helping employees develop new skills is critical, given the rapid advancements and adoption of AI. The skills needed for jobs globally is projected to…
Anyone who works in HR knows we’ve been on a bumpy ride over the last few years. We’ve endured the COVID-19 pandemic, the Great Resignation, surging demand for workers, social justice flashpoints, war and conflict, followed by economic instability and layoffs. HR budgets and headcounts have been cut, even as employers often expect us to…
Imagine having a conversation with a colleague about your ideal candidate. For example, you might tell them you’re looking for an animator in Seattle who has experience in the entertainment industry. Now picture simply typing that sentence into LinkedIn Recruiter and having it quickly present a list of qualified candidates and insights. With the new…
At a time when budgets are shrinking and the economy still feels as if it’s in murky waters, many companies are buzzing about one talent term in particular: retention. How, in other words, can businesses keep their current employees in a challenging hiring market? To find out, Worklife, a media company that focuses on the…
Members who updated their skills on a regular basis (multiple times a year) received promotions 11% faster than those who rarely updated their skills. This speaks to the value of continuous learning and instilling a learning culture. (It also emphasizes the importance of keeping your LinkedIn profile up to date!) Final thoughts Previously, similar LinkedIn…
The Last Repair Shop Pull out your hankies for this deeply moving — and joyous — documentary short about the largest remaining workshop of its kind in the U.S., the musical instrument repair shop for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Created in 1959, the workshop maintains and repairs the 80,000 instruments played by students…
As L&D professionals, we pride ourselves on our ability to create engaging and impactful learning experiences. We are experts at breaking the big picture into learnable chunks and knowing how to design programs that enable learning. We can write a learning outcome with our eyes closed and we are getting better at measuring effectiveness. One…
When’s the last time you committed yourself to brushing up on a professional skill only never to actually get around to doing it? You know your career would benefit if you could just find the time to explore new ideas and learn new skills, but your day-to-day responsibilities take up every minute of your workday. …
Interestingly, the skills that best predict internal movers revolve around collaboration, inclusion, and adaptability — the abilities to connect with coworkers, make everyone feel included, and drive change on an organizational scale. If you’re trying to improve internal mobility and retention, these are the skills you’ll want to look for in internal and external candidates…
When it comes to skills-first hiring, many companies talk a good game. They announce they’re dropping degree requirements and insist they’re evaluating candidates based on all they have to offer. But a recent study by The Burning Glass Institute and Harvard Business School found that even though these companies talk the talk, they don’t always…
Today, we unveiled a new report that sheds light on the habits of top-performing sales professionals: Deep Sales: The B2B Sales Playbook to Boost Revenue in 2024. Over the past few years, B2B buyers and sellers have had to adapt to countless shifts in ways of working, and old playbooks are no longer effective in…
“I like to start with an unusual, thought-provoking question — something that shakes it up and throws the candidate off a bit. I want to see how they react.” This comment, from an investor I recently trained, sums up a common but fundamentally flawed approach to interviewing. And guess what this investor’s top complaint was,…
People from historically marginalized groups are underrepresented in every level of company leadership, creating a sizable opportunity gap. For example, women hold nearly half (48%) of entry-level roles, but only 40% of manager roles and 28% of C-suite roles. Their representation drops at each job level. We see a similar trend for men of color,…
Today we shared information and resources about the policies and technologies we have in place to keep conversations professional during elections and at all times on our platform. You can read more in this post from Wei Tu, our VP of Trust Engineering, and on our LinkedIn Company Page. Source link