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Michaela Jillings shared thisIncredible experience recording a course on LinkedIn Learning Career Hub for Admins alongside my co-instructor Cara de Freitas Bart. This process really deepened my appreciation for the work that goes into the production side of creating our LinkedIn Learning content; and highlighted I have some work to do to improve my voice on camera😄 A huge thank you to our wonderful producers Christen Beck and Minyan He and everyone else involved!
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Michaela Jillings shared thisFascinating to think about the power of language in shaping our perception of AI. Shifting from "AI did this for me" to "I did this with AI" changes the narrative significantly. #AI #30daysofAIThe Shift: How our words shape our relationship with AIThe Shift: How our words shape our relationship with AIMorten Rand-Hendriksen
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Michaela Jillings reposted thisMichaela Jillings reposted thisDespite four out of five people wanting to learn more about how to use AI professionally, companies and people are having a hard time keeping up -- a recent survey found only a third (38%) of U.S. executives say they’re helping their employees become AI-literate. I'm lucky to work with an extraordinary team at LinkedIn Learning, and these are exactly the moments we're here for. Today, we get the great joy of making 250 (!) AI courses free across seven languages, through April 5. Whether you’re building your general fluency in generative AI, empowering your teams to make GAI-powered business investments, or upskilling yourself or your engineers to maintain and train AI models, we've got something here for you! Check it out and let me know what you learn. And a huge thanks to the extraordinary instructors and mighty content crew working to build our growing library of AI courses, all here to help you and your teams navigate this extraordinary moment of transformation. https://lnkd.in/gHnRCGTz
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Michaela Jillings shared thisIncredibly excited to announce the launch of what has been the most exciting and challenging project of my career to date, and something that I believe will truly change the way people learn and develop the skills to succeed in their careers. LinkedIn Learning is launching AI-powered coaching to help organizations develop skills faster and more effectively! The chatbot can help learners navigate workplace challenges by giving personalized, real-time advice and recommendations, all informed by LinkedIn Learning’s credible content and instructors. A huge thank you to this dream team for building, debating, learning, and growing together over these past 6+ months: Chris F. Suman Sundaresh Aparna Krishnan Jeremy Owen Basit Khurram Joshua Grant Sushant Mukhija Amy Sell, PMP Roger H Lam Rocky Shah Vivian He Edgar Zambrano Haichao Wei Win Maddox Chanse Perez and many, many others.
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Michaela Jillings shared thisMy team at @LinkedIn Learning is excited to present an interactive, four-week series of live events with some of our best instructors! Check out this amazing line-up and learn these skills to advance your career! [1] How to make better decisions [2] Strategies for managing stress & build resilience [3] Reinventing yourself [4] Managing your career in a world of constant change Happy Learning! 🥂 #LinkedInLearning #Careers https://lnkd.in/dxRfVCahLearn the skills to help advance your career in this new, interactive live seriesLearn the skills to help advance your career in this new, interactive live seriesLinkedIn Learning
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Michaela Jillings shared thisThey say the first 30 days on a new job should be all about #learning! For an information packed yet digestible course on AI, I highly recommend checking out: https://lnkd.in/gz7Sqnz Thanks Shyvee (Xinyu) Shi for the rec, and Cherie Luo and team for the positive reinforcement :) https://lnkd.in/gFfFwFp
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Michaela Jillings shared thisAs we wrap up the TechWomen program, I'm reflecting on what an amazing and fulfilling experience the past couple months have been. Thank you to the incredible Farrah Reda AL-Iraky for all you've shared with me and Maria Popova, and thank you to TechWomen for connecting us and initiating long lasting friendships, despite thousands of miles and internet connections between us. Can't wait for the day we can all meet in person! #techwomen #LItechwomen21
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Michaela Jillings shared thisI'm extremely grateful to all the female mentors I've had over the years, and especially those whose influence and friendship in the workplace were impactful to me as a young woman figuring out what I wanted to do and who I wanted to be. Thank you Sierra Gray, Paola Zaninovic, Chelsea Hall and all the women who inspire me everyday! #iwd2021 #choosetochallange
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Michaela Jillings liked thisMichaela Jillings liked thisEven just in the last two months, something subtle has changed about how we build at Tailor AI. When a customer asks for something adjacent to our core, we can deliver it in days. That used to be a forcing function. We simply couldn't say yes to everything, so the constraints did the prioritizing for us. Now we can. And that's where it gets interesting. The capabilities we're building don't just add up. They compound. But so does the complexity. For messaging, for positioning, for helping customers understand what we actually do. I don't think this is a problem unique to early stage startups. Anyone building right now is probably feeling some version of this. Ruthless prioritization used to be the answer. I'm not sure that still holds when the cost of exploration is near zero. How do you decide what not to build? How do you message a product that can do more than it used to every few weeks? How do you sell something that keeps expanding at the edges? Curious what others are seeing.
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Michaela Jillings liked thisMichaela Jillings liked thisHow many times have you stared at that blinking cursor in LinkedIn's search box, racking your brain for the perfect search term to find an amazing contact you briefly met at a conference last week? Or fired off search after search hoping to eventually surface an old classmate you ran into at an alumni event, only to come up short on opportunity. Our brains work differently. We remember moments, conversations, and context. LinkedIn search should work the same way. That is why we are launching some exciting changes to LinkedIn People Search to make finding the right people easier than ever. Now you can simply describe who you are looking for in the search bar the way you would tell a friend, and we will surface relevant people based on our understanding of your intent and who might be most relevant to you and your professional goals. This is currently available to Premium members in the U.S. and we're in the process of rolling it out to more members. I will be sharing tips and ideas for how this new AI powered people search can change the way you find people on LinkedIn. I would love for you to follow along and share feedback as we continue improving it!
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Michaela Jillings liked thisMichaela Jillings liked thisIf you’ve been wanting to get closer to AI, this is a exciting one 🥳 We’re hiring quickly for a part-time AI Trainer SWE role and it’s a great way to work directly with cutting edge models. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested!
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Michaela Jillings reacted on thisMichaela Jillings reacted on thisHad a fantastic week at our San Francisco and Mountain View offices meeting key stakeholders for Learning Customer Success in my role as Global Learning Lead for our Global Clients Program. Exciting developments are underway with Career Hub and our learning products, including opportunities with AI Features, Integrations, Career Functionality, and Role Play, among many others. It was great to connect with Hunter Stark, Cara de Freitas Bart, Jamila Ma, Michaela Jillings, Connie Yee, Ashvin Vaidyanathan,Saray Palmisano, Kaitlin Yount, and many more. Traveling for these meetings, connecting with people, and supporting the growth of our business is something I deeply appreciate. Thank you to Jevon Thoresen and Chiara Henderson for your support.
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Michaela Jillings liked thisMichaela Jillings liked thisI quit my corporate job last month. Not on impulse. Over the past couple of years, one question kept returning: "Is this the life I want to live for the next 10–20 years?" After 14 years in corporate roles, I finally answered honestly: no. I'm deeply grateful for what that chapter taught me — about leadership, building teams, and myself. But it was time to explore what else was possible. So I stepped into what I think of as a portfolio life: not one lane, but multiple paths running in parallel. → I joined an early-stage AI startup, where the work is becoming less about fixed roles and more about small teams building, evaluating, and shipping together. → I'm using AI to redesign how I live and learn — from building a family email-processing agent to learning investing. AI has made learning by doing incredibly accessible, and I'm all in. → And the most energizing part: coaching. I now work 1:1 as an executive and career coach, helping leaders and professionals navigate transitions, identity shifts, and what comes next. It's the most meaningful work I've done, and I'm excited to ramp up my coaching practice. — I won't pretend the transition has been easy. Leaving a known identity is uncomfortable, even when you know it's right. I didn't do it alone — I hired a coach to help me navigate the uncertainty. That experience changed how I think about transitions — and it's a big reason I want to grow my coaching practice. — The AI era isn't just changing our tools. It's giving us permission to ask a deeper question: Who do I want to become next? I'd love to hear your story. And if you're navigating a transition — a career shift, leadership challenge, or simply the feeling that something needs to change — let's talk. 🔗 https://amywucoaching.com
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Michaela Jillings liked thisMichaela Jillings liked thisHello, What’s Next A month ago, I wrote a post celebrating goodbye. This one is about hello. Goodbye to 25 years of learning. Goodbye to colleagues who became friends. Goodbye to a chapter that shaped me more than I realized. After 25 years leading transformation, I’ve learned this: progress isn’t linear. I’m a cyclist. If you train seriously, you know this. Fitness isn’t forged during the hardest ride. It’s built in recovery. Adaptation happens in the space between efforts. So I took a month. For me, reflection usually happens on two wheels. Quiet miles. Long climbs. The steady rhythm where thoughts sort themselves out. What surfaced wasn’t uncertainty — it was clarity. Gratitude for the journey. Conviction about where I create value. The feeling of energy building anew. The month did what good recovery always does — it built capacity. I’m at my best helping organizations navigate meaningful change — from strategy to operating model, from ambition to execution, with people at the center of it all. Now it’s time to surge forward. And as I’ve stepped back into conversations about what’s next, I’ve been reminded of something else. After 25 years leading transformation, I’ve learned that interviews reveal more about organizations than most leaders realize. Over the next few posts, I’ll share a few of the signals I’ve noticed while exploring what’s next.
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Michaela Jillings liked thisMichaela Jillings liked thisI’m taking a new role today as chief product officer of the LinkedIn ecosystem, working on what I think is the biggest problem in the world right now. Here’s part of the note I sent our product team today… now excited to start building ----- I believe the most important problem in the world right now is what happens to work as AI advances: How do humans find their path, earn a living and feel like they’re progressing when the world is changing so quickly? LinkedIn has never shied away from taking on the hard problem of helping people and companies manage through challenging times. We are the world's economic graph. We are where doors open, opportunities are found, and real lessons are learned. Personally, during my hardest work moments, LinkedIn has been the place where I've found the friends and strangers willing to help with a kindness and decency that is rare on the internet. Now it’s time for us to rise to this new moment. Members are going to tell their stories, use their networks, and search the graph differently as work evolves. They’re going to put new value on the importance of interacting with real people and getting authentic information. They’re going to develop new skills & build new businesses in new ways. And they’re going to work on new tasks, in new jobs, that are hired for in new ways. In short: we're going to be busy. But I can think of no better way to spend my time than ensuring every single member of the workforce has help for what’s ahead. Hopefully you agree - as we need to do this together.
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