Hey movie fans, it’s Oscars season again! Time to grab some popcorn, watch celebrities stroll the red carpet, and wait expectantly for winners to be announced. But this year, let’s include a new category: best movie focused on talent. Considering that the average person spends 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, it seems only
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.
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
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
“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,
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
At a time when companies are urging everyone to do more with less, most recruiters have to-do lists so long they’d make the most organized person wilt. Each day dawns with reqs to fill, interviews to schedule, and resumes to be screened — to say nothing of the emails from candidates, messages from hiring managers,
Generational stereotypes, like reheated pizza, burn quickest at the edges. For the first time in history, the labor force is made up of five generations of employees. Never before has such a wide range of perspectives and experiences been represented in the workplace. But rather than celebrate our diversity, we deride our differences. Generational stereotypes
