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 Shifting from outdated and biased hiring practices that exclude up to 95 percent of Hoosiers from employment consideration to a skills-based approach would be a major step toward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 […]
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Talent Development Efforts Are Varied and Thriving Across Indiana as Illustrated by the 2024 Talent Impact of the Year Nominees 

By Cheryl Reed  A deep bench of highly skilled tech workers across all of Indiana’s economic sectors is increasingly core to the state’s economic growth and the health and well-being of its citizens. But the development of that bench is challenged by a gap between the supply of those workers and global demand for them. […]