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Linked – LinkedIn Wants You to Embrace its Smart Endorsements
For its part, LinkedIn is revamping the feature by giving it added relevance. What this means is your endorsements will be highlighted based on the person viewing your profile. For example, viewers will see endorsements made by mutual connections, colleagues, and people who actually have some experience with that particular skill (like expert gum chewers, for…
Hacking Crowd Sourced Technology
I have been concerned about the idea of trusting “crowd-sourced” data to influence how decisions are made with technology for awhile now. Mostly, it’s been with social media and “reporting” tools, which seem to me to be very easy to influence. For example, fake news reports, or harassment reports are an all-too-easy way to simply…
Linked – Talent Development—Let’s Get These Myths Out of the Way!
Imagine having one thing you can do that would give you a 94% retention rate. There is one, though it won’t be as simple as doing one thing. It will involve figuring out the appropriate career development tools and paths for the people you are trying to retain, but having a program designed for that purpose gets you way ahead of most companies.
Yes, the thought that people aren’t loyal and won’t stay no matter what you invest in them is, in fact, a myth.
Linked: In a Global Survey, Almost All Respondents Said They’d Go to Work Sick
The study was done before COVID-19, but this is one of those things that we’ve all known about for years, and it’s one of the larger questions we will have as offices start opening back up. “As for why people continue to do this, the researchers cite a sense of obligation to their colleagues or…
