How Skills-Based Hiring will help Resolve Indiana’s Biggest Tech Talent Challenges

Indiana tech leaders have long struggled with how to attract, retain and grow needed talent. Shifting from outdated and biased hiring practices that exclude up to 95 percent of Hoosiers from employment consideration to a skills-based approach would be a major step toward resolving that challenge. Skills-based hiring, also called skills-first hiring, puts a premium […]

Tech Internships in 2022: What You Need to Know

As you embark on your journey in a tech career, it’s important to consider internships to support your professional journey in tech. As a college student, there are various kinds of internships from which you can choose. An internship can give you a preview of what to expect in “the real world”. It can give […]

SaaS Sales Careers: A Comprehensive Guide

What is SaaS Sales? Generally, sales (or selling) is the process of providing goods and services for money; SaaS sales is specifically the process of selling web-based software or software-as-a-service (SaaS).  Sales can apply to a variety of occupations, particularly within SaaS. Often companies will break up sales responsibilities into different positions based on the […]

Indiana must do more to put more Hoosiers of color and women onto and successfully through its tech education pathways

Finding and retaining talent is job #1 for the Indiana tech workforce, but the traditional education path is working for only a small percentage of Indiana students and employers. Indiana must resolve its issues of access, opportunity and equity if it is to develop the tech workforce that companies must have in the coming years. […]

The return of Sales Bootcamp helps Hoosiers break into tech

TechPoint’s Sales Bootcamp has done it again. The popular career prep program has helped a new class of recent graduates and career changers find their place in the challenging and lucrative business of tech sales. Having gone on hiatus in early 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, Sales Bootcamp made its return last month with […]