From AI Curious to AI Fluent: Building the Next Gen Workforce

Case Study

Stage 5 - Skills & Experience

How Wayfair is reimagining hiring, onboarding, and upskilling to create a workforce fluent in GenAI

GenAI requires a new people strategy. The next generation of talent will be both native to and facile with Generative AI — are you ready to meet them? Wayfair shares its approach to identifying and hiring GenAI-fluent talent, onboarding native AI users for faster impact, and upskilling current employees to reimagine their workflows through agentic AI collaboration.

Speakers

Cathy Peterman

Chief People Officer, Technology

Wayfair

Helen Slowey

Head of Tech Talent Acquisition

Wayfair

Learn about Wayfair’s approach to hiring and upskilling the next generation of talent that is both native to and facile with Generative AI skills.

Key Takeaways:

Adjusting hiring practices to assess for native GenAI skillsets
Onboarding native GenAI users effectively to decrease time to productivity
Upskilling the current workforce on leveraging GenAI to disrupt their work and find efficiency

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Speakers

Cathy Peterman

Chief People Officer, Technology

Wayfair

Helen Slowey

Head of Tech Talent Acquisition

Wayfair