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October 17, 2020

How to recruit and keep your tech talent in simple easy ways

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How to recruit and keep your tech talent in simple easy ways.

The world as we know it is changing. Covid-19 has affected every aspect of society, including the workforce. As more employees began to work at home, more companies started to realize how many tasks could be streamlined and how technology could improve their business processes.

This change will inevitably lead to a heavier reliance on tech skills in the workforce. Those who boast the most versatile skills will have the best chance of landing a job in the future.

As this demand increases, it’s best to start recruiting that high-level tech talent ahead of time. Fortunately for potential employers, there is no shortage of schools that produce soon-to-be capable professionals.

Coding Bootcamps

As far as alternative education goes, coding bootcamps have been around for years and offer a reliable stream of students ready to tackle industry challenges.

As opposed to traditional schooling, coding bootcamps are open for anyone who has the desire to learn a new skill. They offer short-term but in-depth courses on different programming languages and provide students with industry mentorship.

As far as the field goes, Indeed discusses how members of this profession use skills such as language acquisition, attention to detail, and innovative skills to overcome any task given. Coders are an invaluable resource for any company as their wide array of skills can be helpful in a number of different up and coming occupations.

One of the best ways to acquire people who have learned these skills effectively is by utilizing the coding bootcamps that have popped up around the country and recruiting their graduates.

Vocational Schools

Perhaps coders aren’t the professionals you’re looking for. When it comes to more broad career paths that still require some intelligent tech talent, vocational schools are a great place to turn to for recruiting. Vocational, sometimes called trade, schools offer courses in a larger number of topics and typically take longer to complete than coding bootcamps.

As an example, General Assembly offers a myriad of courses ranging from digital marketing to data science. With campuses all around the world, it is easy to see the benefits of recruiting from a vocational school such as this one or a similar one.

Traditional education will always have its benefits, but the rise in the number of attendees to vocational schools provides a whole new group of capable workers who have the necessary skills and knowledge for a number of tech-related fields.

Retaining Top Tech Talent

With coding bootcamps popping up all across North America, the number of potential employees with tech talent will be on the rise.

This is where it gets a little bit more difficult. Naturally, a higher number of qualified applicants coupled with an increasing demand for those applicants means competition will be fierce in acquiring them. More importantly, you don’t want your employees to jump ship because another company can make their life far better.

Try to keep in mind some of the common considerations potential employees look at when coming to a company. The biggest of those considerations is most likely salary.

The trade school, App Academy has a completely different approach to tech education; they don’t even charge their students tuition until they land a job as a software engineer earning over $50,000.

Even though this new tech talent may be coming from non-traditional means, their skills and expertise warrant a high salary and dynamic workplace. Providing these two factors is a sure-fire way to keep your employees around.

An added strategy to retaining tech talent is by providing them with day-to-day tasks that are exciting and not monotonous. The rising tech talent the workforce is seeing is versatile and performs best when given challenging, but meaningful work.

By doing this, you can keep your employees interested in the work they are performing.

Conclusion

We are entering a non-traditional era in regard to the workforce and there is nothing wrong with it. More and more people have been able to acquire skills that were previously unreachable to them.

This has allowed the overall workforce to become more skilled and technologically advanced. As an employer, it is important to open your mind to the places where these skilled people can be found and recruited. Doing so will allow your company to bring on talent that will last.

— Artur Meyster is the CTO of Career Karma an online marketplace that matches career switchers with coding bootcamps. He is also the host of the Breaking Into Startups podcast, which features people with non-traditional backgrounds who broke into tech. Connect with him on Twitter and LinkedIn.

• Posted 10.17.20 at 06:17 am by Roy Osing
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