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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel,

and this is Hello Monday, our show about the changing nature of work,

and how that work is changing us.

It's been more than half a year since the protests sparked

by the police killings of George Floyd and Rihanna Taylor.

These protests have led to a reckoning in our whole society,

but particularly inside companies, at our places of work.

We're racing to confront and dismantle systemic racism in our organizations,

and we need help.

It's no surprise that there's been a huge increase in hiring for diversity experts.

As we record this, it's one of the most in-demand jobs on LinkedIn.

Hiring for these roles increased more than 90% last year.

Think about that.

So let's say you want to do this work.

What does a career path look like?

When I started, you know, I thought DEI was all one type of work,

and it's none.

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