If you’re not tuned into #TalentConnect…you’re missing out 👀
It’s been so great to spend time with talent leaders discussing how jobs, skills and businesses are changing. AI has a hand in this, but it’s not the whole story. Hiring is down 30% globally, but… more
If you’re not tuned into #TalentConnect…you’re missing out 👀
It’s been so great to spend time with talent leaders discussing how jobs, skills and businesses are changing. AI has a hand in this, but it’s not the whole story. Hiring is down 30% globally, but applications per applicant are up 30%, compared to pre-pandemic levels.
AI has created nearly 2 million new jobs globally in just over three years (!), and the skills employers are looking for are changing twice as fast as the skills U.S. workers are adding to their profiles. (Add your AI skills to your profile folks!)
Recruiters are feeling it! They’re at the center, making sure their companies have the skills and teams needed for what’s next. We’re excited to introduce Hiring Assistant 2 to help recruiters spend less time on the mechanics of hiring and more time on the decisions that need their judgement.
There’s a lot more to come from #TalentConnect. Join the livestream now: https://lnkd.in/da7AVYP4like 182love 36celebrate 26insightful 6support 2funny 1
Day 1 at Talent Connect reinforced a simple idea: in the AI era, the workforce you build determines the growth you achieve. As skills and business needs evolve faster than ever, business leaders are shifting from asking "Who should we hire?" to "What… more
Day 1 at Talent Connect reinforced a simple idea: in the AI era, the workforce you build determines the growth you achieve. As skills and business needs evolve faster than ever, business leaders are shifting from asking "Who should we hire?" to "What capabilities do we need to win?"
We introduced Hiring Assistant 2 to help organizations build the workforce they need to compete and grow in a rapidly changing market. Learn more below, and let me know in the comments how is talent becoming a bigger part of your business strategy?
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It’s almost time! #TalentConnect is one of my favorite events of the year because talent leaders from the world's leading companies come together to tackle some of the biggest questions around how work, skill building and hiring are changing in the AI era.… more
It’s almost time! #TalentConnect is one of my favorite events of the year because talent leaders from the world's leading companies come together to tackle some of the biggest questions around how work, skill building and hiring are changing in the AI era.
How is work changing for professionals? How are businesses adapting? And how are leaders building the workforce their businesses need to compete and grow?
There’s a lot to unpack, and I’m looking forward to connecting and seeing many of you in New York.
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This is a version of unbundling, which happens all the time in markets and can be incredibly strategically disruptive… the most valuable components of a product are carved out and performed by a faster/cheaper/better solution. I think Ethan is right to call… more
This is a version of unbundling, which happens all the time in markets and can be incredibly strategically disruptive… the most valuable components of a product are carved out and performed by a faster/cheaper/better solution. I think Ethan is right to call out this trend for certain jobs, which will shine a light on which parts of the job are truly valued (and paid for) by the market… because it’s not always what we think at face value. Are universities paying mathematicians for proofs or teaching?Ethan Mollick
What you are seeing in math right now is a consequence of the jagged frontier, and a precursor of what is to come in other professions. Yes, mathematicians do… more
What you are seeing in math right now is a consequence of the jagged frontier, and a precursor of what is to come in other professions. Yes, mathematicians do math, but they also have other tasks they view as important (mentor students, maintain a scientific community, safeguard the future of a field, foster a love of math) that AI can't do
At least one worry that mathematicians seem to have is that by focusing on the flashiest, most obvious element of what mathematicians do (make proofs), the AI companies are damaging the other tasks that AI can't do. AI can discover superhuman proofs, but that is not all that the math profession is about, and actually can undermine and reduce the attention to the other aspects of the job that are important to mathematicians. It becomes harder to defend the value of the many other tasks mathematicians do to the outside world if the most visible part is taken away.
I suspect we will see more of this across fields and professions that will increasingly be forced to help people understand that their jobs consist not only the most visible tasks that AI can do, but also tasks that the AI cannot do or does badly.like 83love 7insightful 7support 4
AI is helping mathematicians make real progress on Navier-Stokes. A problem that has resisted humans for generations.
Super cool. But that’s not how a billion people are going to decide if AI matters.
They’re going to decide it matters when it gives them… more
AI is helping mathematicians make real progress on Navier-Stokes. A problem that has resisted humans for generations.
Super cool. But that’s not how a billion people are going to decide if AI matters.
They’re going to decide it matters when it gives them time back. When Sunday night isn’t spent doing expense reports. When a five-step approval becomes one step. When a doctor catches a disease earlier. When a kid anywhere in the world gets access to a great teacher. When healthcare gets better and more affordable.
Kevin Scott put it this way:
“A.I. is one of the most powerful things humans have ever invented for improving the quality of life of everyone, but it will take time. It should take time. We've always tackled super-challenging problems through technology. And so, we can either tell ourselves a good story about the future or a bad story about the future, and, whichever one we choose, that's probably the one that'll come true.”
The question is what we choose to do with it.
I think the best companies start with a vision: What is the world we want this technology to help create?
Then work backwards... Build toward that vision AND put the safeguards in place to do it responsibly.
The answer isn’t to start from fear, or to ignore the risks. It’s to be clear about the future we want, and build toward it with safeguards from the start.
This is a time for real leadership. Technical brilliance matters enormously. But so do judgment, experience, empathy, and an understanding of how businesses and institutions actually work, and how change actually lands on people.
The technology isn’t going to decide what kind of future we build with it. We will.like 430love 43insightful 36celebrate 12support 11
📣 Mark your calendars! Talent Connect Show is almost here! 📣
Work is changing fast, and AI is turning up the speed. It's reshaping how we do our jobs, hire talent and grow businesses. Exciting? Absolutely! A little overwhelming too? Also yes! 😊
Join us… more
📣 Mark your calendars! Talent Connect Show is almost here! 📣
Work is changing fast, and AI is turning up the speed. It's reshaping how we do our jobs, hire talent and grow businesses. Exciting? Absolutely! A little overwhelming too? Also yes! 😊
Join us for this virtual two-day event bringing together HR and recruiting professionals to explore what’s now and what's next in talent and hiring.
You’ll hear from powerhouse speakers like Brené Brown, Leland Melvin, & Daniel Shapero.
Register here and share what you learn! https://lnkd.in/gDHR3amz #TalentConnectlike 104celebrate 21love 17insightful 2
Part 2 of my conversation with Dhairya Gangwani , from my visit to India a few weeks ago. Enjoyed sharing my thoughts on both my own career as well as how AI is changing the game on leadership and work.
Dhairya Gangwani
13+ years at LinkedIn. 8 different roles!
A career that has been anything but linear.
Archana Sekhar's journey is a reminder that growth doesn’t always… more
13+ years at LinkedIn. 8 different roles!
A career that has been anything but linear.
Archana Sekhar's journey is a reminder that growth doesn’t always require changing companies. Sometimes, it comes from continuously reinventing yourself within one.
In Part 2 of our conversation, we discuss the human skills that will matter even more in the AI era, the career rule she would rewrite for professionals in India, and lessons from her unconventional journey.
Because in a world powered by AI, our most human skills may become our greatest advantage.
What was your biggest learning from this video?
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Just thought this was good knowledge for
leaders thinking about getting their AI game more systemized across orgs.
Dennis Woodside
Reskilling used to be framed as an individual project. Nights, weekends, your career, your problem, your dime. Plenty of people are still doing it that way —… more
Reskilling used to be framed as an individual project. Nights, weekends, your career, your problem, your dime. Plenty of people are still doing it that way — nobody is going to be more invested in your fluency than you. But the pace of AI has pushed the load past what individual effort can carry on its own.
We've ended up splitting it three ways.
The first part stays with the individual, and I don't want to soften that. The second sits with the company and it costs money. The third sits with whoever is running the place and it costs something harder to give; time. Companies that leave all three on the employee will get the fluency of the people who had time.
On Freshworks’ share: we run a program called AI in Motion. We recently wrapped the third installment — three regional events across 11 cities, thousands of employees. Those events produced 25 innovation showcases: working prototypes from SecOps, IT, CX, Sales, Sales Ops, Engineering and Product, each one built against real customer or business problems. And 15 sessions where employees taught other employees how they're using AI in their own jobs — financial workflows, building pipeline, prototyping.
Two things about that. It happened on work time, not on people's weekends. And it wasn't built for engineers. The prototypes that surprised me came out of functions that don't write code for a living.
On the leadership share: I plan my whole training year in Claude — I run four races a summer and the plan is built and adjusted there. I also build prototypes in Lovable and send them to the product team. They're usually terrible ideas, but you can't set expectations from a distance. If the people running a company aren't in the tools, everyone below them reads that accurately, and no training program closes that gap.
Here's what it looks like when fluency lands. Our product development lifecycle has changed. Designers work in Figma, push through Figma Make directly to code, and we've built the hooks into our production environment so what comes out already meets our internal coding standards. QA is largely automated. Cycle times are ~30% faster and AI products ship on a two-week cycle, which we weren't doing before.
We've also turned our own AI Email agent on our own billing questions. It handled about 30% of them from the day we switched it on.
Neither of those came from buying something. They came from people who already worked here figuring out what the tools could do in their part of the business.
Most of our customers aren't from the tech industry. They're not benchmarking models on the weekend. They're looking to us to be conversant enough in this to help them get from experimentation to real use, and you can't outsource that to your product. Most of the AI debate at the CEO level is about which model, which stack, how much budget. That debate matters. What determines whether AI shows up in the P&L is whether the people you already employ know how to use what you've already boughtlike 15celebrate 2love 1insightful 1
AI slop isn't happening just on social networks... it's happening in the day to day of work. Someone sent me what was clearly an AI generated doc. I read it, realized it was all AI, had my AI summarize it and ended up with nothing that brought new thinking to… more
AI slop isn't happening just on social networks... it's happening in the day to day of work. Someone sent me what was clearly an AI generated doc. I read it, realized it was all AI, had my AI summarize it and ended up with nothing that brought new thinking to the idea... This is a doom loop. If we're not careful, we'll end up with a very expensive way to avoid writing and reading in an ocean of sameness, genericness...
Let's not do that. Let's go another way where AI helps us to do things, to learn things, to create things, but in ways that we enhance and advance with our distinct perspectives and unique experiences!like 2,800love 200celebrate 187insightful 111support 94funny 10
AI is creating some of the biggest opportunities in today's job market. But who REALLY gets access to them?
LinkedIn's Economic Graph team's new research on women in the AI economy highlights an important challenge. AI roles are among the fastest-growing and… more
AI is creating some of the biggest opportunities in today's job market. But who REALLY gets access to them?
LinkedIn's Economic Graph team's new research on women in the AI economy highlights an important challenge. AI roles are among the fastest-growing and highest-paying jobs, yet women account for just 26% of new hires into those roles, and representation declines even further at senior levels.
That gap matters because this isn't just a story about technology. It's a story about opportunity.
As AI reshapes work, we have a chance to build the pathways for more women to enter, advance, and lead the future of work as the AI economy grows.
I'd encourage everyone to spend some time with the findings because understanding how opportunity is changing is one of the first steps to helping more people participate in it! 💪
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Inspire Leadership Network
Talent isn’t separate from AI strategy. It is AI strategy.
Erran Berger and Susan Murray challenged #Converge26 attendees to reject the false choice between… more
Talent isn’t separate from AI strategy. It is AI strategy.
Erran Berger and Susan Murray challenged #Converge26 attendees to reject the false choice between becoming AI-led and employee-first.
“The companies that are able to transform their talent and technology bases are going to be the ones that really thrive in the age of AI.“Spot on Alborz.
Alborz Geramifard
AI isn't eliminating engineering. It's changing what great engineers do.
A conversation with Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Erran Berger inspired me to think… more
AI isn't eliminating engineering. It's changing what great engineers do.
A conversation with Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Erran Berger inspired me to think about this through the lens of one of computing's biggest transitions: from assembly to Python. I believe we're living through an equally important shift today. Here's my perspective.like 23insightful 3celebrate 1support 1
There’s always something exciting about the start of a new fiscal year, and makes me want to do a little dance. This week’s LinkedIn' Company Kickoff was a powerful reminder of what makes LinkedIn special.
Across three days, teams in offices around the world… more
There’s always something exciting about the start of a new fiscal year, and makes me want to do a little dance. This week’s LinkedIn' Company Kickoff was a powerful reminder of what makes LinkedIn special.
Across three days, teams in offices around the world came together to share and align on our priorities for the year ahead. Along the way, we celebrated the incredible talent across teams that makes our company unique.
What stood out most to me was the opportunity ahead.
AI is transforming how professionals and businesses learn, work, hire and grow. It’s creating new opportunities, some challenges, and lots of questions about what’s next. The platform we operate has never been more important to help our members and customers navigate the new world of work.
I'm leaving inspired by our people and energized by what’s ahead in FY27.
I’m also excited to carry this momentum into next week for Sales Kickoff (SK27) where I will be hosting events in Singapore, Dublin and New York.
Let's go! #LinkedInLife #SKworldtour #jetlagcominglike 334love 58celebrate 41funny 13support 2insightful 1
First AI / humanoid related strike I at least have heard of. Workers are asking for:
1. Salary vs hourly pay, to protect against automation.
2. Job-security guarantees (unclear what this means, but includes increasing the retirement age), to protect against… more
First AI / humanoid related strike I at least have heard of. Workers are asking for:
1. Salary vs hourly pay, to protect against automation.
2. Job-security guarantees (unclear what this means, but includes increasing the retirement age), to protect against reductions.
3. Bonuses tied to stock & net profits, to get some of the AI upside.
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Really seeking to understand, what's holding people back from 'acting now' to understand the economic impact of AI? Is it a lack of specific data, research funding, forums to discuss, etc?
I think everyone agrees there could be change ahead, but not sure… more
Really seeking to understand, what's holding people back from 'acting now' to understand the economic impact of AI? Is it a lack of specific data, research funding, forums to discuss, etc?
I think everyone agrees there could be change ahead, but not sure what the people who wrote this (https://lnkd.in/gaT_ZFfX) are asking for here.like 40insightful 5love 2
