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Episode 4: Jake Hisch Allen, Linkedin Economic Graph And Learning Solutions
NAWB’s Ron Painter speaks with Jake Hirsch-Allen, Economic Graph and Learning Solutions for Higher Education and Workforce Development, Canada.
Key Takeaways:
• The Economic Graph is a digital representation of the global economy based on over 590 million members, 50 thousand skills, 30 million companies, 20 million open jobs, and 84 thousand schools. In short: it’s all the data on LinkedIn. Through mapping every member, company, job, and school, we’re able to spot trends like talent migration, hiring rates, and in-demand skills by region. These insights help us connect people to economic opportunity in new ways. And by partnering with governments and organizations around the world, we help them better connect people to opportunities.
• Employers are increasing recognizing skills and previous tasks rather than credentials and degrees when assessing candidates.
• LinkedIn Learning ( with Lynda.com) is a database of skills that is helping workforces upskill or transition careers.
• IT skills in fields such as data science and cybersecurity are becoming more and more in-demand as human and foundation skills remain most important
• At this time, it is difficult to predict the effect of automation, but it may create different types of jobs that don’t exist now which will inevitably require lifelong learning of these skills
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By workforcecentralcanadaNAWB’s Ron Painter speaks with Jake Hirsch-Allen, Economic Graph and Learning Solutions for Higher Education and Workforce Development, Canada.
Key Takeaways:
• The Economic Graph is a digital representation of the global economy based on over 590 million members, 50 thousand skills, 30 million companies, 20 million open jobs, and 84 thousand schools. In short: it’s all the data on LinkedIn. Through mapping every member, company, job, and school, we’re able to spot trends like talent migration, hiring rates, and in-demand skills by region. These insights help us connect people to economic opportunity in new ways. And by partnering with governments and organizations around the world, we help them better connect people to opportunities.
• Employers are increasing recognizing skills and previous tasks rather than credentials and degrees when assessing candidates.
• LinkedIn Learning ( with Lynda.com) is a database of skills that is helping workforces upskill or transition careers.
• IT skills in fields such as data science and cybersecurity are becoming more and more in-demand as human and foundation skills remain most important
• At this time, it is difficult to predict the effect of automation, but it may create different types of jobs that don’t exist now which will inevitably require lifelong learning of these skills