Channels for finding talent in IT

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Who came?

• Carolina - Magma; Andrew - Moosehead\ESJ; Maryn - IRCC; Karla - Blue spurs consulting; Jessica - Venn; Sara - T4G; Ian - ESJ; Bonnie - Settlement group; Theresa - ONB; Sungmi - MCAF

Questions?

• How did you find the employees you’ve hired through AIPP?

• How do we help skilled IT workers get hired to stay in the region?

Notes & Ideas

• Job persona > job description

• How do we filter the resumes that come through?

  • Local consultants in target countries

  • Organisations like 3+

  • Mission trips

  • Community groups

  • Targets: Isreal, Ukraine, India (hit & miss)

• What does IT mean? Lots of unknown

  • IT is an all industries and we need backgrounds from all disciplines

• Certifications

  • Can cross check it’s on databases

• Lots of junior talent in IT (0-3\5 years)

  • Some intermediate talent

  • Almost no senior talent

Actions

• Develop categories of roles that IT companies are looking for

• Share job opps for candidates that are referred, that don’t fit at your org

Take away

• IT (industry) can do a better job explaining their hiring needs

• We need to share candidates that don’t meet the need of your organisation to keep them in the region

• Government agencies need to filter resumes better to what employers are looking for