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Google Says Bootcamp Coders Not Ready for Primetime

Tim Sackett Learning and Development, Tim Sackett, Udacity

You might have seen this recently over at Business Insider, Google’s director of education and university relations, Maggie Johnson, came out and publicly slammed the popular short educational coding programs many call “coding bootcamps” in the IT industry. From Johnson: “Our experience has found that most graduates from these programs are not quite prepared for software engineering roles at Google …

5 Places to Find the Top ‘New’ Tech Talent, Now!

Tim Sackett Tech Talent, Tim Sackett, Udacity

We are all having trouble finding technical talent. One issue that’s unique is when you need tech talent, but you also need that talent to have experience with the latest technology! I’m not talking JAVA, I’m talking technology and languages developed in the past zero to three years. You know, when that great IT Manager of yours asks for five …

The New School Podcast: Using Non-Traditional Recruiting Pools To Land Top Tech Talent

Cara Lucas Audacious Ideas, Candidate Pool, Career Paths, Good HR, Hiring Bias, Hiring Managers, HR, Kris Dunn, Labor, Tim Sackett

Welcome to the first episode of The New School Podcast, featuring host, Tim Sackett! In our first episode, Tim talks to Kris Dunn, CHRO at Kinetix, on hiring non-traditional candidates with nano-degrees, who are not necessarily “classically” trained, into top tech roles in today’s workplace. Tim and Kris dive into the thought process of hiring managers who find themselves in this version …