Competing for Tech Talent

Competing for Tech Talent addresses the harsh reality of today's tech hiring market, which is facing almost zero unemployment and extreme talent shortages for skills like mobile developers, security experts, data architects, and so on. This climate has made recruiting a much more difficult proposition and recruiters and employers alike must re-focus their strategies to not only attract this hard to find talent, but to guard and retain their own tech A-listers. Targeted to HR professionals, hiring managers, and employers who hire and retain technical professionals, this guide showcases the guerrilla nature many tech firms are taking to target and poach top talent, the new workplaces that are drawing these employees, and what you can do to compete in this challenging market.

While the rest of the US economy is slowing attempting to recover, tech hiring is on a very different trajectory. This book gives anyone who hopes to hire or keep a technical employee the tools and perspective on what they need to do to compete in the war for talent, and to build and grow the best technical teams.

Written by the head of the largest tech career website, Dice.com, Alice Hill is a Silicon Valley veteran, who was one of the original founding members of CNET.com and headed CNET and other tech properties, and who has recruited, poached, and built lasting work environments of top tech talent.