Talent Connect 2019
as the organisers put it
Join the world’s top leaders, innovators, and influencers in the talent community for an exciting event. Learn more!
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Never split the difference | Chris Voss | 43m |
Former FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator lays out concrete negotiation tools: treat empathy as articulating the other side’s view, push for no to… | ||
| Confidence: The main ingredient | Brittany Packnett | 45m |
Argues confidence is a must‑have and the “spark before everything else,” cites 70% of Americans experiencing impostor syndrome and a TED talk that hits ~1… | ||
| Looking Beyond the Glass Ceiling | Rosanna Durruthy, Deanne Tockey | 46m |
LinkedIn shares concrete results and tactics: leadership moves from 25% to >39% in four years by combining Rooney-rule slates, cohort career programs, manager… | ||
| Moving From Best Intentions to AI & Human Intelligence | Noelle Hunt Bennett | 46m |
Distinguishes automation (preprogrammed rules) from AI (pattern‑seeking, self‑learning), recommends building a skills matrix for every recruiter and running a… | ||
| Introversion within Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging | Glen Cathey | 47m |
One in three employees are introverts (the talk cites ~33%) yet executives are overwhelmingly extrovert — single‑digit percent in senior roles — and studies… | ||
| The American Dream | Catherine Wigginton Greene, Andre Robert Lee | 39m |
A life-sized board game simulates 12 workplace identities over a usual two-hour workshop to show how race, gender, class, sexuality and ability change… | ||
| Skill Surfing into a New Economy | Emrecan Dogan, Nicole Isaac | 46m |
LinkedIn maps a digital labor market with 650 million members, 30 million companies, 23 million jobs and 35,000 listed skills, and pushes a skills-first hiring… | ||
| Learning in the flow of work: Market update | Josh Bersin | 42m |
Learning shifts from courses to on-the-job micro + macro learning, with companies layering learning experience platforms atop legacy LMSs and the average L&D… | ||
| The Innovation of You – Strategies for Living Your Best Life | Kevin Delaney | 47m |
A personal near‑death sequence leads to a pacemaker, repeated emergency surgeries and a donor organ flown from Arizona for a 12‑hour transplant surgery, which… | ||
| Leading Breakthrough Performance in the New World of Work | Jennifer McClure | 43m |
Deloitte analysis of thousands of hires at a large financial services firm finds five correlating success factors and surprisingly shows GPA school references… | ||
| #LearnLikeAnOwner: Inspire employees to #MakeTimeForLearning | Pamay Bassey | 44m |
Corporate CLO launches a daily-learning campaign called Learn like an owner using the company LMS OwnerVersity and the internal social feed the Ketchup app… | ||
| Employee advocacy: The journey to a social enterprise | Aaron Kraljev | 46m |
Companies see concrete ROI: employee sharing drives influenced hires and measurable pipeline uplift, with LinkedIn reporting 500% growth in advocacy programs… | ||
| HR's role in powering culture change | Christine Deputy, Ruchika Tulshyan | 47m |
Argues HR creates conditions and holds accountability while leaders own culture, then shows how that plays out: Nordstrom assembles ~150 executives to run… | ||
| How storytelling will save you from robots | Brendan Browne | 46m |
Argument: storytelling is the highest-value human skill as automation rises, backed by LinkedIn research of 9,000 recruiters and neuroscience showing stories… | ||
| How words impact hiring and retention | Adi Mendiola Barreto | 38m |
Shows data from an augmented-writing analysis (Textio-style) that certain words shift applicant pools — e.g., “manage” skews away from women while “lead”… | ||
| Authentic diversity, equity and inclusion like Beyoncé | Darin Conley-Buchsieb | 48m |
Uses Beyoncé and Netflix Homecoming as a blueprint: apply intersectionality, start with Black women to fix wider DEI gaps, and measure outcomes (Bay Area data… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Reddit Chief People Officer Katelin Holloway | Lars Schmidt | 52m |
Describes building recruiting from scratch to scale a site that grows from 75 to 550 employees, replacing outsourced hiring with dedicated tech, business, and… | ||
| From talent management to people success | Justin Black, Patti Muldoon | 42m |
A people-success program replaces annual surveys and ratings with three nine-question pulse surveys per year, integrated into workflow alongside agile… | ||
| Dropbox uses talent mapping to fill tough roles | Erin Winkler, Phillip Clark | 53m |
Dropbox maps ~200 LinkedIn profiles in 10–15 hours using LinkedIn Recruiter and supplements with LinkedIn Talent Insights to quantify market supply and hiring… | ||
| Town hall: Building a best-in-class LXP | Neha Ajmani, Dan Brodnitz | 46m |
LinkedIn Learning lays out a concrete LXP roadmap: aggregate third‑party and proprietary content, tag skills across sources, surface manager assignments, and… | ||
| 8 ways to turn every employee into a learner | Jason Mulero, Naphtali Bryant | 53m |
Eight concrete tactics: define learning culture as strategy + experiences + connection, then apply eight practices. Key claims and numbers: workers spend… | ||
| How to unleash the power of 40,000 teammates | Paloma DeNardis, JP Elliott | 53m |
Retail company simplifies its social rules to a four-bullet social policy, runs headshot and LinkedIn coaching with no extra budget, and trained 40,000… | ||
| New Recruiter & Jobs | Neha Mandhani, Jonathan Pohl | 46m |
LinkedIn rebuilds Recruiter, Jobs and Pipeline Builder into one product centered on projects unify recruiter jobs pipeline builder, backed by 100+ engineers… | ||
| Recruiting re-imagined: Talent Hub customer experiences | Swati Patel, Daniel Reid, Christina Dunbar, Amanda Ianniello, Lemi Giudice | 48m |
LinkedIn builds Talent Hub as an ATS for small–to–mid businesses that combines sourcing and managing by tying Recruiter and Jobs together; charter customers… | ||
| Embracing disability in hiring: Lessons from a Paralympian | Liz Johnson | 44m |
Founded The Ability People in 2018 and partnered with the UN and IPC to promote jobs for disabled people, building a remote flexible consulting model staffed… | ||
| The FBI’s journey to Modern Recruiting | Peter Sursi | 41m |
FBI identifies a hiring crisis, builds a dedicated data team, and models that 16,000–20,000 applicants are needed to fill Quantico seats; it shortens the… | ||
| Spark power, passion, and purpose at your organization | Tina Robinson | 46m |
Claims that engagement is stuck (~31% engaged in North America, managers drive 70% of variance, 50% are job-hunting) and proposes flipping to inside-out… | ||
| Building a lot on a little: scrappy talent branding | Clara Timpe | 37m |
Builds a talent brand at Pinterest from one person to a three‑person function in a year, creates an EVP aligned to mission and values by partnering with 21st… | ||
| Rage against the machine: Why the human approach wins | Ed Nathanson | 45m |
Argues that whichever company abandons impersonal automation wins hiring by returning to concrete human practices: rejects chatbots fail and templated… | ||
| Candidate connections through job ads | Matthew Wiazowski, Angelica Novielli | 46m |
Ubisoft describes a concrete process: run short informational interviews with incumbents, write a one- to two-sentence hook, use an inclusive-language… | ||
| The key actions that transform cultures | Kevin Oakes, Joe Whittinghill | 47m |
Research of 7,000 organizations finds only 15% success rate for culture change and profiles 350 successful cases. Change breaks into three stages with 18… | ||
| Understanding your hiring culture to engage candidates | Dawn Burke | 50m |
Defines hiring culture as the shared values that drive recruiter, hiring manager and C‑suite behavior and gives a simple assessment: survey those three… | ||
| Reframing employment marketing, a Googler’s perspective | Chris Malin | 44m |
Presents a practical framework that maps candidates by intent to find a job and intent to work for the company, then sizes each quadrant using internal and… | ||
| Engagement after the new hire honeymoon phase | Becca Barish, Meagan O'Brien | 45m |
Second City Works shows how an improv mindset keeps hires engaged by practicing specific micro‑skills: timed trio drills that force no because versus yes and… | ||
| How to be a strategic talent acquisition pro | John Vlastelica | 53m |
Lists nine practical tactics that require little budget and actually change hiring outcomes: analyze sources (Sodexo finds 90% of hires were internals and… | ||
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