Early in Glen Cathey’s career, the owner of the company he worked for announced in front of his peers that he was surprised hiring Glen had worked out. Why? Because Glen is quiet. “It really felt like a slap in the face, publicly to be called out for that,” Glen recalls, as if you can't be successful employee if you're quiet. "Imagine if you filled in that...
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What was the thing Michelle Obama liked best about campus recruiting as a young lawyer? You mean, beyond the fact that it gave her a chance to visit her then boyfriend Barack Obama at law school? She liked that it gave her a seat at the table, she said, to talk about diversifying her firm. She encouraged a Talent Connect 2019 audience in Dallas last week to use...
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When LinkedIn’s former sales leaders Mike Gamson and Brian Frank launched the Business Leadership Program in 2013, they wanted to do more than create a talent pipeline for the sales organization. They wanted to hire the future leaders of the company. As ambitious as that sounds, the program appears to be delivering on its original vision. And BLP has, in its...
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A decade ago, Starbucks decided to tackle its gender pay gap, which was a large problem. No, make that a venti problem. In the United...
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A job post is much more than a solicitation for applications. It’s often your company’s chance to say hello and make a strong first...
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Despite lofty promises to improve workforce diversity across every industry, progress has been slow — and fatigue seems to be setting...
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