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Google's" grow" employee platform

In a world dominated by social media, companies such as google are now using it for international purposes. Google developed "grow," an internal platform hat makes it easy for googlers to find learning opportunities, jobs, one-on-one advice, and other development resources to suit their needs and interests. Grow unifies myriad learning. Development, and job search tools into a one-stop shop for googlers to manage and act on their development. It suggests courses, opportunities, advisors, and more based on what the company knows about the googler (e.g., role, level, location) and the data a googler provides within the tool (e.g., skills they want to develop). Not surprisingly, given google's search capacity, this system allows employees to grow inherently social platform, and every googler has a customizable profile that is visible to others. Googlers can tag skills they have (e.g., entrepreneurship and prioritization) in their profile. Skills listed in grow help the system get to know the user and offer more personalized job recommendations. Googlers can can also indicate if they would like to advise others on a particular skill. If an google employee tags themselves as a "skill advisor" on a topic, (e.g., leadership), they will appear in Grow's search results, and other googlers can view their skills and contact them for advice. The employee can select the option to "teach other googlers," as well,which would connect them to google's g2g (or "googlers-to-googlers") program, an international volunteer teaching network that allows employees to teach their peers on a variety of subjects. As mentioned earlier, grow also allows googlers to list skills they would like to develop. Thay can add up to 10 skills, and grow will use these inputs to further customize their learning recommendations, to help googlers get started, grow suggest a number of skills (culled from a multi-year study of the skills that make googlers effective in their roles). Employees' profiles also include their picture, job title, location, and a link to their internal employee page to help fellow googlers get to know them. In sum, grow profiles are a great was for googlers to teach the tool about  their skills and and development areas, and get better job recommendations  in the process. It also helps googlers connect with their peers as advisors, mentors, or internal teachers, in addition to providing a host of other learning and development resourses.

Question 1. on the basisof the information provided in the case, would the grow platform enhance your employee experiance  if you were a google employee? Why or why not?

Question 2. what is your advice to enhance the value of the grow platform to google? To googlers?