The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

By now, we’ve all heard about — or are actively experimenting with — new AI tools that can help with our short-term productivity. Copilot, ChatGPT, and other tools are, among many things, helping us churn out emails, summarize missed meetings, and brainstorm new ideas.

But what about the long term? Can AI help individuals and companies increase their performance in the long haul?

According to a recent article from Harvard Business Review, the answer is a resounding yes. The only catch is that for artificial intelligence to help us in this manner, we need to shift how we think it augments our work and move past only solving for short-term, individual productivity gains. “To ensure AI deployment advances strategic goals and supports key objectives,” HBR writes, “managers can adopt a different mindset: using AI to increase the collective intelligence of the entire organization.”

To learn more about this mindset shift — including how AI can be best leveraged as a coach for your entire organization and why writing first drafts shouldn’t be a task entirely handed over to AI tools — be sure to check out the top spot in our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. 

And further down our list, you can also find out why becoming a skills-based organization doesn’t mean abandoning how we traditionally think about jobs; why L&D is often seemingly caught in a hamster wheel; and what industry leader John Vlastelica believes are the keys to transforming talent acquisition to meet the recruiting challenges of today and tomorrow.

Here are the must-read articles from this week: 

1. How to Use AI to Build Your Company’s Collective Intelligence (Harvard Business Review)

2. You Don’t Need to Abandon Jobs to Become a Skills-Based Organization (Ben Cowan on LinkedIn)

3. Verifiable Credentials: Trust and Truth in an AI-Enabled Talent Acquisition Market (Glen Cathey, Sid Bhattacharya, Jean-Marc Laouchez, and Etan Bernstein on LinkedIn)

4. AI in the Workplace: Answering 3 Big Questions (Gallup)

5. Why Is L&D Caught in a Hamster Wheel That Outputs Minimal Change and Still Struggles to Get Buy-In and Budget? (Amanda Nolen on LinkedIn)

6. If You’re Looking to Transform TA at Your Company, You Need These 2 Things (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

7. ‘Work Is Not the Place to Be Your Best Self’: TikTok Reacts to Survey on Why Gen Zers Are Getting Fired (Fast Company)

8. Why Being Nosy Can Be a Recruiter’s Superpower (Rhona Barnett-Pierce on LinkedIn)

9. Ever Wonder Why Some CEOs Are So Set on Bringing Everyone Back to the Office? (Oscar Berg on LinkedIn)

10. I’m a VC, and I Hired My First Staff After He Offered to Set Up Payroll for Free. He Showed Me Just How Far People Are Willing to Go for a VC Job (Business Insider)

Here is the must-listen podcast:

Recruiting Nirvana (The Recruiting Future Podcast)