Company Culture: The Key to Attracting Today’s Tech Talent Mike Monroe / 01 Feb 2023 Generally speaking, your company culture reflects how your employees feel at work. It encompasses workers’ thoughts on your organization, their career goals, the practices they follow, and more. And as the job market becomes more competitive, more candidates will examine … Continue reading Company Culture: The Key to Attracting Today’s Tech Talent
Why Mid-Career Changers are the Answer to Tech Talent Shortages Claire Anderson / 09 Dec 2022 By Jeff Mazur A few months ago, my nonprofit organization began building an intensive 13-week tech reskilling program for an incredibly important client. But when it came time to determine who would run the class, we realized we … Continue reading Why Mid-Career Changers are the Answer to Tech Talent Shortages
By Gleb Tsipursky November 20, 2022 If you give any leader the opportunity to increase their talent pool of potential employees by 15%—with all these new hires belonging to an underrepresented group—they’d jump at the chance, especially given tight labor markets and CEO desires to increase headcount. Yet too few leaders realize that, … Continue reading This simple shift in perspective can increase your talent pool by 15%
Ad Council Unveils Its Latest Program To Foster Talent Diversity In Ad/Marketing Industry by Richard Whitman , Columnist, October 14, 2022 The Ad Council is teaming with a group of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other partners to launch a new career accelerator program designed to foster greater diversity within the next generation of … Continue reading Ad Council Unveils Its Latest Program To Foster Talent Diversity In Ad/Marketing Industry
By Jeff Beer October 09, 2022 The advertising industry lost one of its icons with the September 30 passing of Wieden+Kennedy cofounder Dan Wieden at the age of 77. As I wrote last October, when Wieden’s agency cofounder David Kennedy died at the age of 82, if there was a Mount … Continue reading Ad industry titan Dan Wieden’s legacy is how to find and cultivate creative talent
Look for skills and potential instead of specific experience. Constantine von Hoffman on August 17, 2022 Despite layoffs at high tech companies, hiring people with tech skills doesn’t seem to be getting any easier. There are currently 695,077 open computing jobs nationwide, according to Code.org. Compare that to the 79,991 computer science students who graduated … Continue reading A new way to find the tech talent you need
By KC Ifeanyi July 08, 2022 Listen to Fast Company’s Creative Control podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Google Podcasts, or Stitcher. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#xFEFF;</span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#xFEFF;</span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>&#xFEFF;</span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”width: … Continue reading This talent agent is making sure creators of color get paid fairly
By Melissa Daimler May 23, 2022 Throwing my bags onto the airport security conveyor belt at New York City’s JFK Airport Terminal 4, I noticed that the woman in front of me was wearing a hat, jacket, and backpack all with the same company logo. I started talking with her as we waited our … Continue reading An effective way to recruit talent? Try to get your current workers to leave
Marketing operations is more than just marketing automation. Diversify your perspective when looking at candidates’ skill sets. Steve Petersen on June 3, 2022 Recently Demandbase and marketing operations (MOPs) training provider Highway Education released their “The State of Marketing Operations: 2022” report. It includes insights from various marketing operations luminaries like Darrell Alfsono and Sara … Continue reading Broaden your marketing ops talent perspective
A new report from Highway Education and Demandbase suggests MOps talent is in crisis. Kim Davis on May 20, 2022 “It’s hard to hire; it’s hard to train; it’s hard to keep people from burning out. To make matters worse, these challenges have intensified so swiftly that leaders have hardly had time to digest them, … Continue reading Marketing operations talent is suffering burnout and turnover
