LinkedIn Data: Soft Skills Tied to Faster Promotions

Hard skills, as the name suggests, tend to be concrete, tangible, and technical: Think tax preparation, graphic design, or language proficiency. They’re relatively easy to define and straightforward to assess.  Soft skills, on the other hand, can often feel squishy, slippery, and generic — how do you define problem-solving or accurately evaluate someone’s organizational skills? 

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Engage Your Forgotten L&D Superpower: Busting Silos

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

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The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

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

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Internal Mobility Is Booming — But Not for Everybody

If you’re a talent professional, you’ve probably heard the recent buzz around internal mobility. (For those who don’t already know, internal mobility is when an employee moves to a new job within the same company.)  Why is internal mobility getting so much more attention lately? In short, it’s being recognized as an underutilized way to

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The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

ChatGPT, Copilot, and other GAI tools are all the rage these days, helping workers across industries with everything from writing cover letters and editing job descriptions to building decks and obtaining career advice. Yes, you read that last one correctly. According to a new survey conducted by Workplace Intelligence and INTOO, many workers — specifically

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