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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO

Officials at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology found themselves in a position familiar to most IT organizations: aware of the need to do more to attract IT workers given that they — like most employers — faced fierce competition for talent. We’re hoping that the interns will turn into full-time employees,” he says.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In 1997, his friend recruited him as the head of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering and became a Disney Fellow. Some of them are as under: In 2001, UdK 01-Award in Berlin, Germany for pioneering the Graphical User Interface. In 2002, Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology, Colorado.

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How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

TechCrunch

Metapa was in the Akamai space and as the markets cratered in 2001 for funding infrastructure projects, Scott Yara (the company’s founder) and team bought a small company called Didera and turned it into Greenplum, the first petabyte scale data warehouse built on top of open-source technology,” Sim told TechCrunch.

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Technology Blazes a Path for Hiring in a National Teacher Shortage

PowerSchool

During the ongoing pandemic, that means leaning on technology to recruit, screen, interview, and onboard teachers online to avoid potential disruptions caused by school closures and shifts back to remote operations. Recruiting teachers and substitutes during a pandemic. And that’s why many are looking to technology for help.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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Enough About Millennials. Are You Ready For Generation Z?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Born between 1996 to 2001, Gen Z is the demographic cohort succeeding millennials (born between 1981-1995). Hence, the same recruitment strategies are not going to work when hiring and retaining Gen Z. . Most hiring managers and senior recruiters tend to be veterans in the industry. Give all applicants an equal shot.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Click here to learn more about Korn Ferry Futurestep’s in-depth recruiter development program, Talent Academy.