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January 13, 2022 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am PST
FreePandemic-Era Strategies for Hiring & Growing People with Gary Bolles
In the midst of what many have dubbed “The Great Resignation” many employers are struggling to fill job openings.
Fixing this issue isn’t easy. According to entrepreneur Gary Bolles, standard recruitment strategies are ill-equipped to handle the future of work. He says traditional recruitment pipelines are highly dependent upon poorly designed processes that usually don’t benefit the hirer or the worker. Instead, he says startups should focus on expanding their network.
“You want a high functioning network with a range of different people who can all solve a wide variety of different kinds of problems,” Bolles says.
Bolles is the author of The Next Rules of Work, a book that helps leaders understand why traditional notions about work inhibit their ability to address new problems. On Jan. 13, 2022, Bolles will be hosting a webinar for Founders Network members where he’ll discuss pandemic-era strategies for hiring and growing people.
Bolles will also cover:
- How work changed in “the Great Reset” of the global pandemic
- How these changes have affected founders and startups
- What founders need to do differently to effectively hire and develop workers
- What founders need to know about skills to grow their company
About Gary Bolles:
Bolles serves as the Chair for the Future of Work with Singularity University, and has 9 courses on LinkedIn Learning with over 1 million learners. A longtime Silicon Valley executive, he has frequently been a serial and sometimes parallel entrepreneur. Through consulting with a range of iconic Silicon Valley companies, catalyzing countless strategic conferences and innovation explorations, and serving as editorial director for six technology magazines, he has collaborated with early-stage executive teams from Google, Yahoo, Dropbox, Asana, and many others.
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