How to Attract Young Technical Talent
A manager's guide to attracting and hiring young technical talent.
According to every metric half of the IT industry has less then 5 years of experience. This means organizations won’t be successful if they only recruit the 10+ year veterans because there just aren’t enough of them. As leaders, we need to be able to find, attract, vet and retain young technical talent. This session will provide lessons learned from interviewing approximately 100 recent college grads every year for the past 5 years.
About Christopher Judd
Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader. He is an accomplished writer having co-authored Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”. Based in Columbus Ohio, he has spent over 20 years architecting and developing software for organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups across various industries including insurance, health care, education, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. Mr. Judd spends most of his time consulting while continuing to focus on mentoring and training in Java, mobile and related technologies.
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