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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware. As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. But remember that your engineers are not recruiters, she says. We’re creating things that don’t exist yet.

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

CIO

A blended approach to recruitment I’m a strong advocate of the traditional approach to recruiting talent, i.e., identifying individuals who have the right education, certifications, experience, and qualifications. One of my mantras is this: recruit for attitude, train for competence, coach for performance. IT Leadership

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO

Yet the leading tech execs who make up CIO’s 2023 CIO Hall of Fame share many of the same attributes, attitudes, and ambitions. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” NTT i 3 ), a research and development center; and CIO and CTO of Magellan Health.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

CIO

A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. As with most business challenges, data is instrumental.

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She’s now CEO of her own business, CIO Concierge LLC, a niche consultancy that provides executive-level coaching as well as IT branding and strategic planning services.

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Plaid lays off 20% of staff, CEO says the fintech company ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’

TechCrunch

In March, Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Greze told TechCrunch that he grew his engineering team 17.5x She added that since Plaid is “aligning to updated headcount goals, teams like recruiting are impacted more than others.”. in just four years, from 20 engineers to 350 people. Today’s cut likely reverses some of that hyper-growth. .

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SaaStr London: Efficiency, Alignment, Ingenuity, Unfundability, & Ice Cream

Daniel Bryant

CONFERENCE SUMMARY Summary of SaaStr Europa 2023 at the Tobacco Docks I had the pleasure of attending the SaaStr Europa event for the first time this year, and it was a blast. I’ve mostly worked in 0-to-1 startups over the last few years, and so I’ve become a regular reader of SaaStr , SaaStr University , and Jason Lemkin’s content.