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Dakota Younger and Bill MacKay rant about the supply-chain problem between the education system and the job market, how data science and better design can help solve some of the inefficiencies, and the future of job training.

Keith Halperin is a seasoned recruiting pro and contributing writer to ERE media. We discuss “Agile” recruiting, recruiting “supermodels” and managing client expectations, as well as how the role of the recruiter is changing due to emerging recruiting technologies.

Tim Sackett discusses the changing relationship between education and the job market. It has become abundantly clear that higher education is not effectively creating employees who are job-ready, according to business leaders anyway. Are we at a pivotal moment where the education model needs to fundamentally adjust to an ever-changing job market that requires new and different skills at a scary fast pace? How can big data help us create better job training models? How will new education solutions like Coursera, Udacity, and Codefights play out in the future? These questions are more on this episode of the Boon podcast.

Dakota Younger, founder and CEO of Boon, explains the psychological barriers to building an effective referral program and how to overcome them.