In 2026, how different is software engineers' work vs. administrative assistants'? What about in 2035? Professional computing work happens in more spaces than we recognize. Join us @chiwork.bsky.social for a 1/2 day workshop on 6/22 in Austria - see more: computing-pathways-workshop.netlify.app
Lara Karki
@laras126.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Georgia Tech researching middle-wage computing workforce development, career pathways, and future of work. https://larakarki.com
At DataWorks @ GA Tech, we had a difficult time with LinkedIn in our career development program (as reported in this paper), but things have gotten better since. I plan to include some of the new findings in my conference talk at #CSCW2025
"You can't access this profile"...have you ever seen this error on LinkedIn? @laras126@hci.social and team examine how LinkedIn's design works for well-connected users, while others experience frustration and uncertainty on a platform essential to the labor market #CSCW2025
"You can't access this profile"...have you ever seen this error on LinkedIn? @laras126@hci.social and team examine how LinkedIn's design works for well-connected users, while others experience frustration and uncertainty on a platform essential to the labor market #CSCW2025
Grow your professional network on LinkedIn? It’s complicated.
In today’s salaried labor market, “if you aren’t on LinkedIn, you don’t exist,” as Sharone (2017) and Gershon (2017) put it. The problem…
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