LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
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It was like March twenty twenty and we were just watching Covet hit and it was just this heartbreaking kind of moment where in the feed you were seeing all these people by no fault of their own starting to post that they've lost their job. We started seeing in our data is you had some areas like maybe hospitality was really getting hit, but some areas like customer service that just couldn't hire enough. And you'd think the marketplace would balance pretty quickly. You think, Okay, like you know, maybe these people will start moving to other jobs, but it wasn't happening. And a large reason behind it is people are used to looking for certain particular titles.
And they didn't start realizing all other people could do this job. So we made a pretty big push in something we call skills first hiring. This was the idea that we could translates people's experiences into a set of skills. And by that we could help them really start balancing the marketplace with a much different system, right? And so I think that the job market is rebalancing, but it's it's being done. The pathways are being done in a very different way. That seems to be, you know, maybe a change that holds through these ups and downs. And I'll be very interesting to see. Mm-
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