We’ve all lived this scenario: You have an intake meeting with your hiring manager and the energy is good and you are feeling it. You ask: “How much of a priority is this search?” The hiring manager says: “Oh, this is my top priority or we can’t move the road map ahead.” You reply: “Got
In today’s rapidly evolving world of work, businesses that fail to embrace an age-inclusive workforce risk stagnation. At Talent Connect United Kingdom 2025, Lyndsey Simpson, CEO and founder of 55/Redefined, brought this issue into sharp focus during her keynote session, Ageless Talent: Redefining the Future of Work. With a career spent championing over-50s talent, Lyndsey
If you’re a talent professional looking to hire nurses and other clinical workers, a new report from LinkedIn, Anatomy of Best-in-Class Healthcare Hiring, has a recommendation for you: Don’t sleep on salary. According to new LinkedIn data found in the report, 68% of nurses and 66% of other clinical talent in the U.S. cite better
Is there a new cheating crisis? Not yet, but over a year ago, I raised the alarm about the growing risk of candidate cheating and suggested we, as talent leaders, start talking to our hiring teams about this to develop a point of view (not everyone thinks it’s cheating if a candidate uses AI) and
Gymnast Simone Biles, winner of 11 Olympic medals and 30 world championship medals (23 of them gold!), didn’t need to perform backflips to fire up 10,000 talent pros at last week’s Association for Talent Development Conference (ATD) in Washington, D.C. She only needed to share her story. A former foster child, Simone credited her adoptive
This moment — marked by economic uncertainty, fast-changing skills, and accelerating AI adoption — calls for a new approach to career development. That’s why were excited to introduce LinkedIn Learning Career Hub to help companies develop and retain critical talent for a dynamic world. It’s the only platform powered by an organization’s internal job and
The “seat at the table” complaint. I’ll be honest — it’s difficult for me to even write this phrase. Whenever I hear the words “seat at the table,” it’s like nails on a chalkboard inside my brain. Why? Because complaining about not having a seat reveals we don’t understand how things actually work. We are
It seems I can’t go a day without hearing about how AI is transforming recruiting, and keeping pace with these changes can feel overwhelming. I regularly talk to recruiters — and job seekers — who feel like they’re always trying to play catch-up. As a recruiting leader at Zapier, where we help businesses integrate automation
Three times in my recruiting career, I’ve seen our industry crack open. First, when job boards arrived in the late 1990s. Then when social media made sourcing infinitely scalable. And now it’s happening again with AI. But this third wave feels infinitely different. It’s not just new tech; it’s a redefinition of how we work,
In three of the last four training programs we’ve run, someone has asked: “Is it OK to start the interview by asking the candidate to just tell me a bit about themselves or to give me a high-level run-through of their resume?” Each individual had their own reason for starting interviews this way, but the
