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Speaker 2: From LinkedIn News and I heard podcasts. This is let's

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Speaker 2: talk offline. I'm Gianna Prudenti.

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Speaker 3: And I'm Jamaie Jackson Gadsden. It's the holiday season, y'all.

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Speaker 3: And if that we're doing something a little bit different

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Speaker 3: this week. Now what's different, you might ask, Well, first,

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Speaker 3: did you know that LinkedIn has a whole podcast network

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Speaker 3: filled with other podcasts that talk all about work related topics?

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Speaker 4: Mmmm?

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Speaker 5: Now you know?

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Speaker 3: So if that in mine? Over the next two weeks,

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Speaker 3: gian and I want to share some of our favorite

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Speaker 3: episodes from other shows in the LinkedIn podcast network.

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Speaker 2: Ugh, I'm so excited. You know, we have some pretty

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Speaker 2: amazing colleagues who also give really great advice on their shows,

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Speaker 2: and we've learned a lot from the conversations they've had

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Speaker 2: on their podcast. And this week we want to share

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Speaker 2: an episode from Get Hired.

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Speaker 3: Yep, one of our work besties. LinkedIn's Andrew Seaman spoke

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Speaker 3: to Jill H. Fuller, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard

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Speaker 3: Business School, about how AI is changing the future of

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Speaker 3: work and hiring.

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Speaker 2: AI is becoming a more prevalent part of all of

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Speaker 2: our lives, especially when it comes to work and we

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Speaker 2: loved this conversation because Andrew and Joseph really helped dispel

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Speaker 2: some of the fears we might have when it comes

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Speaker 2: to embracing new technology and understanding AI will only help

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Speaker 2: us stay competitive in the job market. So we hope

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Speaker 2: you enjoy this conversation from get Hired.

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Speaker 6: From the way people apply for jobs and hiring managers

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Speaker 6: screen applicants to the actual kind of roles available, AI

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Speaker 6: is reshaping every aspect of getting hired today. AI powered

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Speaker 6: tools hold enormous promise for job seekers, but they also

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Speaker 6: pose some potential challenges. So how should you be thinking

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Speaker 6: about your career in the context of AI, well, whether

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Speaker 6: you're just starting out, looking to pivot, or trying to

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Speaker 6: climb the ladder. We're getting into all of that on

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Speaker 6: today's show. From LinkedIn News, This is Get Higher, a

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Speaker 6: podcast for the ups and downs and the ever changing

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Speaker 6: landscape of our professional lives. I'm and Andrew Seman, LinkedIn

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Speaker 6: Senior Managing editor for Jobs and Career Development, bringing in

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Speaker 6: conversations with people who, like me, want to see you

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Speaker 6: succeed at work, at home, and everywhere in between. Joining

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Speaker 6: me today is Joseph Fuller. He's a Professor of Management

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Speaker 6: the Managing the Future of Work initiative. Professor Fuller is

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Speaker 6: an expert on what's known as the skill gap in

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Speaker 6: the US labor force, which is the space between the

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Speaker 6: current skills of the US workforce and the skills needed

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Speaker 6: to get work done. He's written extensively about policy solutions

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Speaker 6: to address it. We met up at the Walmart Opportunity

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Speaker 6: Summit in Washington, d C. To discuss how AI is

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Speaker 6: changing the nature of work and hiring. I kicked off

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Speaker 6: our conversation by asking why it's so important to be

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Speaker 6: thinking about the role of new technologies in the future

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Speaker 6: of work right now?

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Speaker 4: Can you tell us a.

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Speaker 7: Little bit about what you think of today's gathering and

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Speaker 7: sort of what you hope people will get out of it.

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Speaker 1: I think today's gathering actually is a bit of a

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Speaker 1: recognition that the way large companies particularly have been approaching

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Speaker 1: And there's some bedrock assumptions on which a lot of

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Speaker 1: It does, but forty four percent of college graduates end

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Speaker 7: Well, what do you think about this moment overall, especially

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Speaker 1: It's not an automation technology. We're just one for one.

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Speaker 1: people are very curious about AI, men of them are

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Speaker 7: What strikes me is how dynamic. It is like especially

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Speaker 1: You're citing that MIT staff and research, which is terrific.

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Speaker 6: with Joseph Buller, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.

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Speaker 7: I think sort of also, what we're talking about here

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Speaker 1: So the opportunity to make people, even in white collar

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I think smart c suites, smart boards of

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Speaker 7: What would you say you know from your experience for

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Speaker 1: We don't use the word weird at Harvard Business School,

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Speaker 5: So how do you do those things?

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Speaker 1: Because it sounds like I'm saying, well, if you don't

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Speaker 1: are pretty remarkable. Chat GPT already has ability to with

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Speaker 1: it actually was the Harvard Business Review, so we're very

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Speaker 5: It's YouTube.

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Speaker 1: So if you want the resource in YouTube if you

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Speaker 5: Are awesome. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So be honest about your portfolio of skill, try

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Speaker 1: Look at their preview jobs. Build a little bit of

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Speaker 1: about contrasting what you've got versus what they're looking for,

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Speaker 5: You bet.

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