Lars Schmidt, Founder of Amplify Talent, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about what you should know if you plan to make the jump into HR, the 2 most important things for HR practitioners to prioritize their careers around, and the ways HR will look different in 2023. Timestamps: (3:20) Recent launch of Amplify Academy's Diversity Council (4:37) Lars’ career story and how he started Amplify (9:36) What happened in 2015 for the open sourcing of HR (15:20) Getting out of the zero-sum mindset that in order to win everyone else has to lose (18:45) HR is now a destination function (20:00) Where there’s room for disruption within HR (22:20) What you should know if you’re making the jump into HR (30:00) The 2 most important things for HR practitioners to prioritize their career around (34:00) The importance of having peer networks (39:36) On whether the economic uncertainty will hamper progress made over the last few years (43:03) People moving away from the startup scene for more stability (46:25) The current state of HR tech (52:05) 7 ways HR will look different in the new year (57:00) The idea of choice (1:00) Built For People (1:01:38) Lars’ definition of a Modern People Leader (1:02:16) The career advice Lars would give his 22-year-old self Subscribe to the MPL Weekly Digest: https://forms.gle/qdt6YaWULfoEHb6n8 Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-modern-people-leader

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