With rapid changes in the recruiting landscape and labor force, it’s critical to re-evaluate traditional hiring practices. The new generation entering the workforce, Gen Z, encourages employers to ...

This oft-used trope overlooks the difficulty of generalizing from individual cases and of making accurate assessments of their policy implications. Activists, politicians, commentators, and others ...

The lived experience, the direct and unintentional (as in not stunt journalism) experience of homelessness, is increasingly used and prioritized in policy and program realms. While much of this is ...

As someone who has built companies across multiple industries over several decades, I find the current surge in entrepreneurship encouraging. More people are willing to bet on themselves. At the same ...

One of the most common movie tropes is that something tragic happens to a character, and their friend tries to console them saying “I know what that must feel like.” The friend usually gets met with a ...

Researchers are calling for a formal process that recognises and acknowledges the invaluable contributions of those with lived experience in healthcare research. New research by Flinders University ...

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What makes college students successful after they graduate? The University of Washington recently reported that 53 percent of recent college grads were unemployed or working in a job that didn’t even ...

University of Virginia student Emma Camp recently penned an important essay in the New York Times where she talked about her time at Mr. Jefferson’s university and discovered that she and so many ...

I can imagine Joni Mitchell singing those modified lyrics every time I encounter one of today’s most grating phrases. The phrase: “my lived experience.” Every time some blowhard wants to identify as ...