How to Be a Champion for the Business Value of Career Development

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

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How AI Will Change Recruiting in the Next 6 Months

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

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Humans + AI: The Winning Formula for the Future of Recruiting

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,

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Kicking Off the Interview: What’s the Right First Question?

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

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6 Hiring Best Practices for Small Businesses

Hiring the wrong person is a major risk for small business owners because a single bad hire can hurt productivity, damage your reputation, and negatively impact team morale. A hiring error can cost your organization resources that you simply can’t spare. A recent survey by LinkedIn found 66% of small businesses in the U.S. were

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One Healthcare Org’s Prescription for Recruiting Success: EVP, Mission, AI

The current diagnosis for the healthcare industry? Chronic growing pains.  Even as healthcare continues to confront major talent shortages, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that healthcare will add more new jobs than any other U.S. industry over the next 10 years. This will include a projected increase of nearly 180,000 registered nurses, a

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Tell Your Story at Talent Connect 2025

Attention all talent leaders: If you’ve found success navigating the always evolving and shifting world of work, we want you to share your story at Talent Connect 2025. We’re looking for talent and recruitment leaders who have tackled the big issues of the day — including AI readiness, change management, skills transformation, and more —

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