Four Winning Talent Strategies for the New IT

The IT job market is heating up and top talent is becoming scarce. Industry reports and professional polls forecast strong competition for information technology (IT) workers in 2011. It is essential that IT organizations start defining strategies for acquiring employees who will propel their companies forward - or run the risk of losing out to the competition for the best qualified technical and business minded people. The technology job market is not the same as the general job market, and finding workers with high-demand IT skills will become more of a challenge in the next 12 months. The whitepaper provides hiring managers and HR four strategies that should be implemented to ensure only superior performers are hired and retained. The four strategies include: maximize retention, streamline the hiring process, target soft skills and invest in training. The paper discusses ways organizations can impletment each strategy and provides examples and market trends.