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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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They point to statistics that highlight challenges in IT workforce recruitment and diversity. According to The State of the Tech Workforce 2023 report from training and certification organization CompTIA , professionals identifying as Black or African American made up 8% of US tech occupations (compared to 12% across all US occupations).

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IT staff shortages damage the bottom line: IDC report

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CIOs instinctively understand how IT staff shortages and recruitment struggles make every task and deliverable more difficult. Training can be an answer — if done right The report shed light on two parallel causes: the IT talent shortage itself, and resistance from employees in being retrained for different tasks.

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

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Start planning your tech hiring needs as per your business requirements, revamp your recruiting processes, and come up with creative ways to land that perfect “unicorn candidate”! So before you put together your plans, ask yourselves this—What are the most important 2023 recruiting trends in tech hiring that you should be prepared for?

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4 paths to sustainable AI

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We see it as a recruiting and retention factor.” Use more efficient processes and architectures Boris Gamazaychikov, senior manager of emissions reduction at SaaS provider Salesforce, recommends using specialized AI models to reduce the power needed to train them. All those 13,000 new models didn’t require any pre-training,” he says.

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8 ways CIOs and CHROs can collaborate for business impact

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From employee engagement to training, HR executives are involved in a lot of initiatives that have a direct impact on IT. In addition, in a tight talent market, IT must rely heavily on HR to gain an edge in recruiting and retaining valuable IT talent. Bolstering training programs. Improving the employee experience.

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Tecton.ai nabs $35M Series B as it releases machine learning feature store

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Just last week, AWS announced the Sagemaker Feature store , which the company saw as major validation of their idea. AWS launches SageMaker Data Wrangler, a new data preparation service for machine learning. “It’s actually something that we have a primary recruiting initiative on.

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The most important theme from AWS re:Inforce 2022

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AWS re:Inforce was back in person in Boston for the 2022 edition. For two days, the cloud security community gathered to learn from each other and hear the latest from AWS. AWS has published the sessions from the event on their AWS Events YouTube channel. AWS calls their program, “Security Guardians.”

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