Category: Learning & Development

Employees are valuing career development more than ever—it’s a sign that the company is willing to invest in their future. How are businesses approaching training today? What are their pain points, and what topics are being addressed in training?

Gen Z Is Ditching the Traditional Job Search and Employers Need to Ask Why

More than two-thirds of Gen Z workers have landed a job through Instagram, and nearly one in three through TikTok, not through traditional channels, a 2026 Zety survey found. Partly, this is natural gravity: younger candidates lean toward the platforms they already use, and two-thirds consider themselves content creators. But it also shows genuine frustration […]

Who Can Access Your HR Data?

The greatest threat to HR data often isn’t a sophisticated cyberattack; it’s an outdated permission, an unnecessary copy, or a confidential file sitting somewhere nobody thought to check. As employee information spreads across increasingly complex storage environments, simply knowing who can access it becomes a challenge in its own right. Sending an email to the […]

Soft skills

Why Soft Skills Development Is Your Ultimate Competitive Strategy for 2027 

Today’s workplace is weird.   Employees are highly connected to their technology, constantly communicating with an army of AI chatbots, SaaS services, and digital collaboration platforms. At the same time, they are profoundly disconnected from their customers and co-workers.   Constant digitalization, remote work, and now outsourcing communication to AI have created an empathy and soft-skills deficit. […]

SPARK Talent: Fanatics Three Keys to Leadership

Success in the workforce starts with your leaders. If those taking charge don’t have clarity and a focused direction, their talent will lag behind. But knowing exactly where you, your team, and your talent needs to go isn’t always simple, and sometimes, you need to bet on your success. Few know this better than Ericka […]

The HR + AI Transformation: 3 Insights from 350 HR Pros

HR professionals are no strangers to change, and the rise of AI has caused a drastic shift in the way that HR teams manage day-to-day work, hiring processes, and employee experience. While these shifts can bring positive opportunities for the ways that teams work, recent insights from HR professionals reveal that AI transformation isn’t without […]

AI Promised You 11 Hours a Week Back: Here’s Where They Actually Went

It’s 10 a.m. and Maria asks an AI tool to draft a summary. The answer comes back fast but not quite right, so she pastes the same request into a second tool to see if it does better, then a third, because the second one was missing context the first one had. Thirty minutes disappear […]

Behind the Professional Smile: Inside the Trend of “Cry Masking” at Work

There’s a new phrase quietly circulating through the corporate world, and it points to a heavy reality for American professionals: “cry masking.” Coined by resume.io, cry masking describes a growing phenomenon where employees who feel emotionally overwhelmed on the job go to extreme lengths to hide it. They step away to hide tears, suppress breakdowns, and […]

civility

Nonpartisan Civil Service Under Attack

For much of the 19th century, the United States was hobbled by widespread government corruption. “To the victor go the spoils” supplanted a government “of, by, and for the people.” Only a national disgust with post-Civil War era corruption led to the creation of a nonpartisan civil service. Despite occasional slips (Teapot Dome), the federal […]

The Phrase That Will Get Every HR Pro Talking: Skills Supply Chain 

As AI transforms the workplace faster than most organizations can adapt, HR leaders are facing the challenge of building a workforce strategy that operates with the same precision and agility as a supply chain. The proof is in the data. Skillsoft’s Workforce Readiness Report recently found that while 86% of employees use AI tools at work, only 24% feel fully […]

AI May Be All the Rage, But Soft Skills Still a Priority for Employers

The rise of AI seems to dominate all conversations about the world of work. So, jobseekers are understandably eager to tout their knowledge of the latest technology. But as important as AI is, employers still tout the value of communication, leadership, empathy, adaptability, and other soft skills. Holding Back AI? Can a lack of human […]