Tag: recruitment challenges

Where do your new IT hires come from? Other IT companies? How's that working out? If you're finding the traditional talent pools are drying up, you are not alone. In the UK, British Gas hired an ex-NASA data scientist to progress its Hive smart heating project, who said IT recruitment wasn't rocket science?! In the US, LinkedIn has reportedly hired economists, physicists and perhaps most famously a brain surgeon to fill IT roles. Why? Because, like you, they have found that the traditional talent pools are either drying up or they are being overfished....