How to Prepare and Train Young Technical Talent
According to every metric half of the IT industry has less then 5 years of experience. This fact identifies a challenge of skill gap that most organizations are not prepared handle. As leaders, we need to help young talent to fill their gaps to become productive contributors quickly. This session will provide strategies and lessons learned from hiring and training over 130 recent college grads over the last 7 years through an immersive bootcamp and oversight. You will learn how to make your young talent more successful and therefor your organization more successful.
This session will include proven strategies for:
- evaluating inexperienced talent
- designing curriculum
- supporting materials
- providing role models
- providing continued oversight
- retaining talent
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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