This is the week we make promises to ourselves: To lose weight, to drink more water, to read War and Peace, to jump out of an airplane (with a parachute, of course). Oscar Berg, a senior consultant at Exobe, a Swedish IT services firm, has a New Year’s resolution he’d like companies worldwide to make:
It’s no secret: HR professionals are grappling with unprecedented challenges. Burnout is rampant, and many seasoned experts are leaving the field altogether. According to a 2023 survey from Gartner, more than 70% of HR professionals say their staffs are more burnt out than before the pandemic. Yet I firmly believe that this is an incredibly
With the start of 2025 just around the corner, many talent professionals are likely tinkering with new ideas and approaches to their work. A new year, after all, leads many to reconsider how they’ve tackled things in the past and what can be done differently in the future. But how do talent pros make those
Whenever a major new technology is introduced, the excitement about its potential is tempered by concerns over the problems it might create. And that’s never been truer than with AI. While AI could revolutionize talent acquisition — relieving recruiters of mundane tasks to focus on work they love — it also poses risks. The good
This is the second of two posts from Glen Cathey on why companies need to provide direction and tools so their workforces can use AI safely. Here’s a link to the first post, “Why Giving Employes the AI Tools and Training They Want Is a Win-Win.” Because generative AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and
For more than 100 years, the Land of Oz — with its yellow brick road, ruby shoes, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my — has held a grip on our imaginations. This has been true from the turn-of-the-last-century book by L. Frank Baum to the 1939 classic movie, from the Tony Award–winning Broadway
In the past year, we’ve seen tremendous change take hold in the workplace, from the embrace of hybrid offices to the explosion of generative AI to spiraling burnout. As we look ahead to 2025, the workplace is poised for another transformative year that will reshape the experiences of employees, HR teams, executives, and more. With
In a recent edition of his Future of Talent Weekly newsletter, industry leader Kevin Wheeler surfaces some of the issues recruiters are having with AI-generated applications from a sea of underqualified candidates: “One recruiter mentioned an applicant who gave an impressive response on an assessment,” Kevin writes, “but failed to answer even basic questions during
Work smarter, not harder. There’s no “I” in “Team.” People don’t leave jobs. They leave managers. By now, most talent professionals have heard these stock phrases so many times they’re practically background music. Yes, you know what it takes to make a great team. You certainly know what it means to do more with less.
This is the first of two posts from Glen Cathey on why companies need to provide direction and tools so their workforces can use AI safely. There appears to be a massive disconnect in the corporate world when it comes to AI literacy. While an overwhelming majority of workers are eager to develop their generative
