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Welcome to the LinkedIn Talent Community! We are delighted you are here!

 

Take a moment to introduce yourself in the comments below. (Fun facts, gifs & memes are always fun too! Just keep it professional folks 😉)

👋🏼 What is your name, and what is your industry and profession?  

🌏 Where are you located? 

💻 What LinkedIn Talent Solutions products are you using? How long? 

⭐️ What do you hope to get out of your experience in the Talent Community? 

 

🙋🏼‍♀️ I’ll kick us off!

👋🏼 I’m Courtney, and I am your Community Manager. I’ve been in the talent & HR SaaS space for over 10 years - as a Customer Success Manager (shout out to CSMs! 🙌🏼), in internal enablement, and the best of both worlds in community-building! 

🌏 I am located off the beautiful Emerald Coast of Florida (Gulf of Mexico), USA 🌊 🏝️☀️ where I try to take in water activities 🏄🏼‍♀️ & digging in the dirt 👩🏼🌾 as often as possible.

💻 I’m a massive fan of LinkedIn Learning, as a learner! Skill-development is an important pillar at LinkedIn and I’m able to prioritize my own learning & development with full support of the organization.  

⭐️ My goal is to ensure the LinkedIn Talent Community is a place that connects people to resources and to each other through positive interactions, meaningful connections and knowledge-sharing.

 

📣 Chime in below and say hello!

Again, we are delighted you are here! Looking forward to seeing you around >in] the Community!

~ Courtney-Community Manager

Good day to all, Greetings from sunny and warm Dubai :) 

👋🏼 I’m Samer, “Samer” is an Arabic name that means “Storyteller”. I am the Director of People & Culture at a food and beverage distribution company called Bidfood.

🌏 I am originally from Beirut, Lebanon however I’ve been living and working in Dubai for the last 20 years :)

💻 I am using LinkedIn recruiter and LinkedIn Learning for the last 2 years as part of my job to recruit talents into our organization and to enable these talents to nurture and grow to become the future leaders.

⭐️ I’m here to learn, contribute, share best practices and most importantly connect with likeminded, passionate people.

Best Foodservice Regards

Samer 

Hey Samer! I love your name “Storyteller” :) 


Hello, Hi!

My name is Suzy Connolly. I am a Curriculum Developer and Learning Administrator at ATCO Canada. We are a Utilities company with global operation.

🌎 I am located in Alberta, Canada. I love to disconnect from technology on off hours to recharge in the mountains.

💻 I am leveraging LinkedIn Learning to encourage self-development across our organization.

💥 I am passionate about sparking a love for learning.

💡 I am excited to be part of this community and see what other brilliant ideas group members are executing.

 

 


Hi there! I am Geraldine Palacios, Learning and Development Specialist at AMC Networks.

🌏 I am currently based in our NYC Headquarters

💻 I currently support our Learning, Engagement, and LinkedIn.com product trainings

⭐️ My goal is to continue learning how to leverage LinkedIn Learning in our organization, as well to network with all you amazing people on how you are utilizing, prompting and what are some of your best practices.


Hey all!

My name is Enrique Barajas, currently located in Durango, México; I’m a learning specialist on Carhartt inc.

My goal is to learn tendencies, technology and new technics on the learning and development area, at the same time to share my knowledge and skills it they are needed.


Hello Everyone!! 😀

👋🏼 My name is Jesse Peck, I am currently working in the Toy Industry and am a Global Learning & Development Coordinator. 🤗🌴🥑💕

🌏 I live in the beautiful city of Melbourne, in Australia - I feel very lucky to live and work in such an amazing city and country. 🍇🌞🌱🐟

💻 Along with our internal company instructor-led offerings and self-paced LMS content offerings, we also offer and have had a massive uptake on our LinkedIn Learning partnership.  Being a global company with multiple time zones to consider, we love the fact that the LIL courses are available to our team anytime, anywhere on desktop and on mobile devices. Working in the toy industry, we have a huge Design and Tech division so these online courses help fill our skill gaps and advance our teams careers. 💻📱⏱️

⭐️ My goal is to create meaningful connections with other like-minded professionals, plus, share and learn from this Talent Solutions Community and their offerings.  I am looking forward to actively utilize the resources available and/or recommended by others for my own development/knowledge.  

I look forward to connecting with you all! 😍🌻🌟


Hi guys!

 

I'm Romain, HR freelancer in Belgium 🇧🇪

 

Currently using the Linkedin Recruiter Seat and a job slot to find candidate for companies in addition to my consulting work.

 

Looking foward to share ideas here!


👋🏼 Hi there! I’m Kayleigh, working as an L&D Manager in an AdTech company! 🌏 I’m based in London, UK!

💻 Our company have been using LinkedIn Learning since 2017, and have found it a great resources for complimenting our initiatives and program, and expanding our employees learning outside of our internal offering. 

⭐️ I’m looking forward to connecting with you all here, sharing ideas and best practice, and getting a better awareness of advances and trends in the L&D cross-industries. 


👋🏼 What is your name, and what is your industry and profession?

Hello! I’m Jake Belgian, a Digital Learning Manager in the legal industry.
My role primarily looks after our digital learning content, how this compliments our overall learning strategy and how our digital learning resources contribute to performance improvement and impact. Excited to be here!

 

🌏 Where are you located?

I am based in the North East, UK. Happy for a coffee catch up virtual or otherwise for anyone in L&D looking to catch up, bounce ideas off of and network.

 

💻 What LinkedIn Talent Solutions products are you using? How long?

We’re using LinkedIn Learning - having just launched May 4th. It’s been an exciting journey to get there, and we’re hoping to learn more about engaging users with the platform and delivering measurable impact in the years to come.

 

⭐️ What do you hope to get out of your experience in the Talent Solutions Community?

A safe space for questions and networking sounds great! Although I’ll explore, look around and see how else it can help our team.

Thanks!


Hello, everyone - my name is Shawn Morrison. I work as an Employee Success Consultant in the healthcare software space. 

Currently I’m in charge of running the LMS for an organization of over 750 employees and contractors, as well as our LinkedIn Learning portal.

Located in Nashville, TN - looking forward to learning from you all!


👋🏼 Hi everyone, I’m Andrew and I’m the Digital Learning Manager at Lloyd’s of London (not the bank 😂), an Insurance and Reinsurance market place.

🌏 I’m based in London, England.

💻 We launched LinkedIn Learning globally just over a year ago and are still pushing to increase take up.

⭐️ I am hoping to gain insight from all the other community members on how they have introduced LinkedIn learning, what methods they use to increate activation and how they drive learning in their business


👋🏼 Hi! My name is Kerri and I’m a Talent Development Specialist at URBN, working in the retail industry. I manage the systems for our internal talent team including LinkedIn Learning, UKG Pro Learning, and Together.

🌏 I am located in Philadelphia, PA (go birds!! 🏈)

💻 I use LinkedIn Learning. I’ve used LiL at my current company for almost 2 years and at my previous company for 2 years. 

⭐️ I’m really excited to meet other community members, learn some new innovative ways to utilize LinkedIn, and identify best practices for our employees. 


Hey everyone - Mike Demarest with Siemens. I’m from Houston, and have worked with various LI products for a long time. Right now I’m a product co-owner and we have Recruiter, Featured Ads, and Talent Insights. Thanks for the invite to the community. I am interested in learning ways to get more involvement from hiring teams in project folders, identifying ways of measuring proactive VS passive results, and engaging our global TA community. 👍


On behalf of the Community team, WELCOME 🙌🏼 to the newest members of the Community!

Introduce yourself here and ‘meet’ some of the other Community members! This is a great way to share some fun facts about you, your organization, your role, and maybe share an area of interest or challenge in your role that might spark conversations with other Community member who share the same! 💡 Community matchmaking, in the making!

@NMW @OlgaTun @emm.kulas @mrandall86 @TEd @Mizzy @Tess @seva_kurdiukov @Sara S. @Kumar Raja Reddy @vaibhav @Ashley Foo 

@Leesa @jmc @Paddy MacQueen @TracyQ @LetticiaPierrez @steph1031 @davidfortin @kclines @cnisha @ravn @jdefrates @CGallegos @sydlau @RobertCRoach @adele_and @nataliekovacic @Mohile @Zee @RecruiterTelos @Sarah @chrislo @LewisBurne @TerriP @ScarlettArk @amandaradice @Judi @Abdelrahman El Wakil @StaciaHoffman @Ayesha @methesky @Alina @syrahr @Weronika Niemczyk-Savage @bijuthomas @recruitermaggie @gauravkamra @Flora @Brian Harrison @Ash @ccocchi @AlexCamm @mtopcu @harrycane @Shaista @Mitchell @Dimitra @Joanie Player @Letitia Apostu @estelle @Bacote @floresm 

 

 


Hello everyone, my name is Brian Harrison and I work in HR at 1Concier.  I have been with 1C for over 5 years and am based in Georgia.  Really happy to be part of this community.


Servus everyone! I'm an expat living in Munich and working for a SW startup called Apex.AI as the sole recruiter 🇺🇸🛫🇩🇪 We've undergone some changes this year (like almost everyone) and will soon be hiring a Senior Recruiter in the Bay Area. I would love to get in touch with anyone interested in a hybrid role! Referrals are definitely welcome ✍️ Please connect with me for more info. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchelldavis7/


👋🏼 What is your name, and what is your industry and profession? Jeff Naftal, I’m an HR Business Partner for a non-profit membership association.

🌏 Where are you located? Our offices are in DC, but most days I’m working from home in Rockville, MD.

💻 What LinkedIn Talent Solutions products are you using? How long? We use Recruiter and LinkedIn Learning, both for about 2.5 years.  We actually integrate LiL with our Cornerstone LMS.

⭐️ What do you hope to get out of your experience in the Talent Solutions Community? Contacts, information on how others are using LinkedIn, who knows.  :)

 


Hello everyone, my name is Brian Harrison and I work in HR at 1Concier.  I have been with 1C for over 5 years and am based in Georgia.  Really happy to be part of this community.

Welcome! Assuming you are referring to Georgia, USA 🍑 - we are practically neighbors! I’m on the Gulf Coast of Florida 🏖️️. Looking forward to seeing you ‘around’ here in the Community!


👋🏼 What is your name, and what is your industry and profession? Jeff Naftal, I’m an HR Business Partner for a non-profit membership association.

🌏 Where are you located? Our offices are in DC, but most days I’m working from home in Rockville, MD.

💻 What LinkedIn Talent Solutions products are you using? How long? We use Recruiter and LinkedIn Learning, both for about 2.5 years.  We actually integrate LiL with our Cornerstone LMS.

⭐️ What do you hope to get out of your experience in the Talent Solutions Community? Contacts, information on how others are using LinkedIn, who knows.  :)

 

Hi Jeff - welcome! (I’m so curious about your username - @harrycane!) So it sounds like you’ll be interested in both neighborhoods of the Community - the Talent Acquisition Lounge where discussions are focused around all things recruiting, sourcing, hiring, LinkedIn Recruiter & Talent Insights, as well as the L&D Lounge where discussions are centered around, well.. all things Learning & Development and LinkedIn Learning! :)

Shout out to non-profit work! I’ve love to find other Community members who also work in the non-profit space to connect together. 💡


Hi, Everyone, I’m Tina Edwards (i.e. TEd :-)), a Membership Manager at a non-profit based in Washington DC. I currently telecommute full time, which works very well for me. I have been working with LinkedIn Learning as a new member benefit for a select group of our early career members. I hope to gain information (tips and tricks) to get our membership more active and excited about using this benefit!


Hello Everyone,

I am Saurabh, currently working in @ciena as a Global Talent Sourcing specialist.

feel free to connect with me for any talent sourcing,Talent intelligence questions.

 

Thanks 


Hi, Everyone, I’m Tina Edwards (i.e. TEd :-)), a Membership Manager at a non-profit based in Washington DC. I currently telecommute full time, which works very well for me. I have been working with LinkedIn Learning as a new member benefit for a select group of our early career members. I hope to gain information (tips and tricks) to get our membership more active and excited about using this benefit!

Hi @TEdwards - thanks for introducing yourself here! Sounds like you’ll be interested in the Learner Engagement forum category, as it continues to develop and grow. 

I’d love to connect you with other members who work in the non-profit space, specifically with LinkedIn Learning as a benefit - how cool is that?!


Hi everyone, I am Paddy and work at an organisation called APNIC in Brisbane, Australia.  I work as part of the HR team and am responsible for recruitment, performance and employee relations at APNIC.  We currently use Glint, LinkedIn Learning and Recruiter.  I am keen to hear tips and tricks from others using the platforms. Cheers!


Hi everyone, I am Paddy and work at an organisation called APNIC in Brisbane, Australia.  I work as part of the HR team and am responsible for recruitment, performance and employee relations at APNIC.  We currently use Glint, LinkedIn Learning and Recruiter.  I am keen to hear tips and tricks from others using the platforms. Cheers!

Welcome @Paddy MacQueen! As someone who was with Glint (including the Glint Community!!) for over 5 years and now having the opportunity to build the Talent Solutions Community with amazing members like yourself, you are speaking my language! I love hearing the holistic approach to HR and all things employees through customers like yourself who touch all of it!  


Helllooooo Community! We are well into August already, and it’s been a very stormy, very HOT summer here in the States 🥵. I hope you are all enjoying your August, wherever you are in the world!

👋🏼 Welcome to our newest members who have joined since our last shoutout! 👋🏼 The Talent Solutions Community continues to grow and we are so happy you are here! Let us know what you are looking for in the Community of peers, and share any topics you’d like to hear more about.

@vijayshanti @Rita Nunes @Thais @MaxwellMills @Gpataky @Mihaela Chiriac @JeppePeppe @Tandi @julien @Ana @CWhitlow @Diane @VarunBatta @Rich 2 @Jo Stewart @David McKinley @IG23 @Mathias Theunis @EnvisionSelectiveServices @lethamil @Prash123 @MSnead @ColverB @larsontyj @Liz Labno @lodgejl @wgallerani @ANdrea @Bernd Bonack @Yunus Basha @Amber Ward @itsmepratikg @Manoj Kumar @jenmrogers @FioGRM @Aga @Karla Gil @Deb @Divokyj @camille @Jonny Hill @Manon S @ZurichIrish @NMW @OlgaTun @pmurray 


Hi everyone, I’m Liz Ebeli, Customer Success Manager for LinkedIn Learning based in Melbourne, Australia. I’m excited to be a part of the community and see this platform grow as support to our customers and each other. I’m happy to lend a hand in responding to queries, providing insights from my experiences, and examples of whats tried and tested and perhaps fresh thinking too with our Learning customers. In return, looking forward to learing from you all.


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