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Should You Hire Inexperienced New Hires? And If You Do, How to Train Them?
Newbie job seekers often hold the fear that they’ll be passed over in favor of more experienced talent. Sometimes this is true: employers are looking for the most experienced talent available, but there is also something to be said for fresh, inexperienced employees. Advantages of the Underqualified Hire Perhaps one of the most obvious advantages of […]
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Exploring How to Train Employees in a Flexible Workplace
A flexible workplace is one of the most talked about things in talent management and the corporate world right now. Flexibility in the workplace is something the majority of Millennial employees don’t just prefer, but in many ways are demanding. WorkplaceTrends.com, in collaboration with CareerArc, released the results of a study entitled the “2015 Workplace […]
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Contingency Plans: Working During Platform Outages
Yesterday, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides took an early weekend. For thousands of workers around the world, the platform’s outage—which at least for some workers conveniently fell on Friday afternoon—meant an early weekend for them too. While many workers may have welcomed the early weekend, for businesses, the three-hour outage came at a high […]
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How a Learning Management System Can Support a Merger
Mergers, large and small, are part of contemporary business. Indeed, every year, the corporate landscape shifts as existing companies merge, usually with the intent of taking over a growing portion of the national or global market. However, as history has shown, while some mergers are highly successful (e.g., Disney and Pixar), others prove disastrous (e.g., […]
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How to Implement an LMS, Part 1: Laying the Groundwork
The Learning Management System (LMS) market has become huge in recent years. The global Learning Management System market is expected to grow to $40.9 billion by 2029 (source). The Learning Management System (LMS) Market is estimated to reach $15 billion by 2023. Despite this, it’s surprising that many organizations (mainly on the smaller side) still […]
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How to Be Part of the Diversity Solution: Part 3
In the first part of this three-part article, we examined the “tech diversity” problem, highlighting the technology sector’s startlingly lack of diversity and its especially abysmal track record of recruiting and hiring Black and Latino workers. Part two of this series examined some of the solutions currently being explored in the technology sector and the […]
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Exploring the Gig Economy and How It Impacts Employee Training
Amazon recently made what many view as an exciting announcement. The mega e-Commerce retailer is delving into what’s being dubbed the gig economy with a new delivery option. Amazon unveiled its program in Seattle, where independent contractors are becoming on-demand delivery people. The service is called Amazon Flex, and much like Uber, people sign up […]
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All About CRMs and How to Make Online Training Effective
A customer relationship management system is one of the most important things many businesses invest in. Most e-Commerce companies use them, but they can also be valuable for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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How to Be Part of the Diversity Solution: Part 2
In the first part of this two-part article, we examined the “tech diversity” problem, highlighting the technology sector’s startlingly lack of diversity and its especially abysmal track record of recruiting and hiring Black and Latino workers. In this post, we examine some of the steps industry leaders have already taken to diversify a predominantly white […]
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How to Be Part of the Diversity Solution: Part 1
In early September, Tech Inclusion hosted a conference and career fair, bringing minority workers into contact with recruiters from the top technology companies across the nation. While targeted recruitment is often frowned upon both in and outside minority communities, in the case of the tech industry, the need for the event is hard to ignore. […]
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Do Experienced Workers Really Outperform Recent Grads?
Over the past week, thousands of college-age students have returned to campuses across the United States. Over the next eight months, many of these students—those who are seniors—will go on the job market for the first time. A small percentage of these students will end the school year with a desirable job offer in hand. […]
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Learning Management Systems: Adding Value to Instruction
For at least some people, the idea of online learning is still cause for alarm. On the more moderate end of the spectrum are those people who assume that virtual classrooms—and more generally, all distributed forms of learning—hold the potential to augment but never truly replace face-to-face forms of instruction. On the more extreme end […]
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