You might have seen this recently over at Business Insider, Google’s director of education and university relations, Maggie Johnson, came out and publicly slammed the popular short educational coding programs many call “coding bootcamps” in the IT industry. From Johnson: “Our experience has found that most graduates from these programs are not quite prepared for software engineering roles at Google …
L&D Hangout: How To Develop Training For Recruiters
Most companies have a Talent Acquisition function. Guess what they don’t have? Effective training for recruiters. FOT insiders Kris Dunn and Tim Sackett jumped on a Google hangout with the good folks at Meridian Knowledge Solutions to talk about best practices in developing training for recruiters. Bringing to the table some great experience, the hangout crew discussed, among other things, the following: —How your training …
L&D Hangout: How to Develop Training for Recruiters
Most companies have a Talent Acquisition function. Guess what they don’t have? Effective training for recruiters. In this week’s upcoming episode of the L&D Hangout, “How to Develop Training for Recruiters” (brought to you by the good folks at Meridian) Tim Sackett and Kris Dunn will talk about the roadmap for developing training for recruiters. Join the hangout on October 26, 2016 @ …
What Did 56,000+ Software Developers Say About the Job Market?
Stack Overflow recently released the results from their annual Developer Survey and this year over 56,000 Developers from 173 countries answered questions about the tech they love, the tech they hate and dozens of other questions that will help you understand them better and recruit them to your organization! Stack Overflow is the largest online community for programmers in the world. Here …
5 Truths You Can’t Change About Learning in the Workplace
Let’s be honest – a lot of organizations (most, in fact) play lip service to the concept of learning and development. We say it’s important, but our spend per employee is a fraction of what’s reported by the Bersins of the world, our managers can’t generally make time to pull people off the floor/out of the field for L&D activities …
Every Compliance Training Should Be Like This
Airlines are trying to make waves with their in-flight safety videos these days. The latest comes from Delta, who is betting that you’ve seen an internet sensation or two… check it out here because it’s amazing: Obviously this is a wicked smart marketing move on Delta’s part—that goes without saying. It’s also a brilliant way to do their compliance training …
WEBINAR: Bootstrap Your Training Function: 5 Ways To Make Learning Matter In Your Company
It’s true. You know the true power of learning and development, known to the laypeople in your company by the pedestrian term “Training.” A revamp of your approach to learning and development has been on your project list for no less than two years—but day-to-day HR and workforce management duties has kept it in the “someday” bucket. We feel …