Wynden Stark

HR STRATEGY

CodePath | May 06, 2022

On May 5th, renowned nonprofit organization CodePath which works to bolster the country’s tech industry, announced a partnership with tech industry leaders, CourseHero, Workday, and Schmidt Futures. The partnership will deliver a paid pre-internship program to prepare college juniors for promising tech careers. Underrepresented students will receive early access to prestigious internships at premier tech companies through the Summer Internship for Tech Excellence Program (SI...

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

Appcast | March 02, 2021

Appcast analysis reveals job applications submitted via mobile devices last year exceeded those subsisted via desktop. According to the analysis of some 7 million applications to nearly 1.300 US employers. It is also observed that mobile applications made up nearly 61% of all submissions in the recruiting technology firms analysis. “Gig” and transportation job functions saw the highest percentage of mobile applications among the 24 industries analyzed. The foodservice ...

Canada Life | June 01, 2020

Today, to kick off Pride month, members of Canada Life’s Pride @ Canada Life employee resource group raised a rainbow flag at the company’s offices in London, Regina, Toronto, and Winnipeg. In this time of global pandemic, we know that Pride celebrations will look different than in years past, but Pride’s celebration of diversity continues. Although we can’t physically join together to celebrate this summer, we’re proud to fly the rainbow flag in the spirit of toget...

HR Dive | January 17, 2020

Global skill mismatches are "imposing a 6% annual tax on the global economy in the form of lost labor productivity," according to a Jan. 15 report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Part of the problem is that skills are becoming obsolete at an increasingly fast rate, BCG said. This increases demand for reskilling and upskilling, but "[t]he system for building human capital needs to be updated," said Leila Hoteit, a BCG senior partner and co-author of the report, in a statem...