Celebrating Latino Voices, Learning Top Skills, and Finding your Next Play

At LinkedIn, we believe your identity shouldn’t change as soon as you get to work. In fact, who you are is your greatest strength. Throughout #HispanicHeritageMonth and beyond, we’re celebrating the value Hispanic and Latino perspectives bring to the workplace with “Soy yo” – a call to embrace and honor all the things that make you uniquely you.?

Join us on September 27 at 11am PDT/2pm EDT for a LinkedIn Live panel discussion, Being Seen: Need for Representation of Latinos & Latinas in Leadership featuring Emmy and Golden Globe-Winning actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez , Rosanna Durruthy , Global VP of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at LinkedIn, Stacie De Armas , SVP of Diverse Insights and Initiatives at Nielsen, and Lili Gangas , Co-Founder and CEO of LTX Connect.

We’ll explore where we are, where we are going, and how we can increase Latino representation at work and on screen. In the conversation, we’ll shine light on the pressing issues facing the Latino community, covering topics that include: navigating your career when you don’t see yourself represented in your industry, steps that can be taken to close the leadership gap, and advice to help the community advance in their careers and create meaningful connections.?

We want to hear from you! Share your questions for the panelists using #HispanicHeritageMonth and RSVP for the event here .

In addition to the LinkedIn Live, we’re excited to share six?LinkedIn Learning courses?to help empower Hispanic and Latino communities in their career – and they’ll be free throughout?#HispanicHeritageMonth ?(September 15 through October 15, 2022):

• Empowering BIPOC Through Mentorship
• How to Succeed as a Latina in a Global Work Environment?
• Coping with Impostor Syndrome to Build Career Confidence
• Professional Networking
• Finding a Job at Companies That Embrace Diversity and Inclusion
• How to Highlight Your Job Skills

Finally, don’t miss Hispanic and Latino voices on LinkedIn. Follow Financial educator & First-gen advocate,?Giovanna González-Chávez , Creator economy & web3 expert?Justin Johnson , and Founder & CEO at Pan Peru,?Pedro David Espinoza ?who will share insights, tips, and knowledge gleaned from their unique career journeys all month long.

Learn the Top Skills In Demand Today

To help you stay relevant and adaptable with the skills employers are craving, we've compared the top skills professionals had in 2015 with those for the same jobs today and identified the skills that rose to the top . The top 20 skills were featured in 78% of jobs posted globally on LinkedIn over the last three months.

In-demand hard skills include customer service, sales, and accounting, and the top soft skills that are important, no matter your role, include leadership, communication and problem solving. We’re committed to helping you to get the skills for the jobs of today and the future with these LinkedIn Learning courses , free for the month of September.

The Ties that Find

When you’re job hunting, who’s most likely to help? Top U.S. scholars have tackled this question via a massive study that analyzes more than two billion LinkedIn connections. The answer might surprise you! Research shows that it’s often our casual acquaintances, rather than our closest friends, who turn out to be our most useful connections in job hunts. So why is that?

When we connect with so-called weak ties — people we know only slightly — we gain access to job networks that stretch into unexpected areas. That lets us find people and opportunities we otherwise wouldn’t know about.?

The weak-ties concept is based on the idea that you’ll see a wider range of possibilities if you?tap into people who attended different schools, who might be noticeably older or younger than you, and whose exact career journeys don’t mirror yours.?To learn more, read George Anders ' newsletter about it.

Who do you know that's hiring?

Here is a great reason to connect with those "weak ties" in your network. To help you get your foot in the door at your next job, we’ll now show you who is hiring in your first and second degree network from the LinkedIn Jobs tab. We’ll also notify you with jobs people in your network are hiring for, so you can be one of the first to apply.

More than one-third of job seeking LinkedIn members in the U.S. said they reached out to someone in their network to discuss their career plans.? But it can be challenging to know who is hiring or who to reach out to for a referral. If you'd like to see for yourself, head to the LinkedIn Jobs tab (After you finish reading, of course).

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Video Events?

• September 22 - Creator Conversations: Unpacking the Creator Economy with?Joy Ofodu ,?Teresa Au , and?Scott Rising ,?RSVP
• September 23 - What Creators Need to Know India: Elevate Your Content Game with?Vaishnavi Singh ,?Raunak Ramteke ?and?Aanvi Kamdar ,?RSVP
• September 23 - Finding an Employer That Meets Your Wants and Needs with?Andrew Seaman ?and?Natalie Rothman ,?RSVP
• September 26 - Meet the Authors,?#ThePreparedLeader ?with?Erika James ?and?Lynn Perry Wooten ,?RSVP
• September 27 - How to Have Difficult Conversations with Opposing Viewpoints with?Kara Penn ?and?Kristin Zecca ,?RSVP
• October 7 - Use Behavioral Economics to Design Better Products with Kristen German and?Shyvee Shi ,?RSVP

Audio Events

• September 23 - The DEI ER: Developing Equity + Inclusion in Supplier Diversity Programs with?Raven Solomon ,?Tonia Woodbury ?and?Gary Young, II ,?RSVP
• September 23 - Introducing Aurea McGarry: Reintroducing Emmy Award Winner to LinkedIn with Dan Roth and?Aurea McGarry ,?RSVP
• September 25 - How Can I Make My Work More "Visible"? with?Dimitrios Primalis and?Natassa Manitsa ,?RSVP
• September 26 - Leveraging LinkedIn to Write Your First Book with?Eric Sim ?and?Shereen Daniels ,?RSVP
• September 29 - The State of Social Media Marketing with?Jonty Stander ,?RSVP
• September 29 -?#PandaWisdom ?Recruiting A-A with?William Glade ,?Monique Reis and?Richie Lampani ,?RSVP

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