Tag: talent

Top Employers for Tech Talent – Who is Winning the Tech Talent War? | LinkedIn Live

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Top Employers for Tech Talent – Who is Winning the Tech Talent War?

View the event on LinkedIn, which was delivered live on May 18, 2022.

The expectations of today’s technology workforce have changed and continue to evolve. As a result, employers are needing to focus on creating compelling employee value propositions, especially in light of the Great Resignation and the persistent demand for talent required by digital growth. 💥

📣Join this LinkedIn Live event to hear our analysis of the top US employers across key industries for tech talent and explore the reasons that set best-in-class firms apart. This analysis will focus specifically on the tech workforce – a first of its kind in the market.

Karl Sprules, Head of Global Technology and Operations, AllianceBernstein, will be joining the event to discuss the culture and environment that AllianceBernstein has cultivated to recruit and retain tech talent, which has earned them the No. 1 spot on the Financial Services ranking.

Our experts will also share critical insights into what today’s tech workforce truly wants, and what potential employers could be overlooking.

What questions will the event answer for the participants?
✔️Who are the best employers of tech talent among the largest US firms?
✔️What makes the best employers stand out?
✔️What helps attract and drive away high-potential tech talent?

Meet the Speakers

KarlSprules
Head of Global Technology and Operations
AllianceBernstein

Hiring Advice in Light of Potential Recession

Although companies are experiencing growth now, the signs are clear that a US recession is coming and likely will be upon us within a year. The Fed is starting to take measures to reduce liquidity and raise interest rates. Typically, recessions cause companies to pivot from their growth agendas into cost-saving agendas – including layoffs of staff. But layoffs would be a mistaken approach to a recession this time around. This blog shares my advice for handling the labor situation in the recession we now face.

Read more in my blog on Forbes

Strategies to Expand Labor Pools Today and in a Recession | Blog

In today’s hot labor market, with a difficult gap between talent demand and available resources, companies must try to widen the area where they can recruit workers, and hunt for labor pools in new, smaller markets. Google and other tech companies are reaching out to labor markets on the West Coast and in small markets in remote cities. FedEx and other large companies are investing in expensive TV ads to reach workers in non-traditional labor pools. However, the signs are clear that a recession will be upon us in months, and the new strategies for expanding a labor pool often have long run times. What are the best approaches to expand labor pools now?

Read more in my blog on Forbes

5 Steps to Managing High Outsourcing Spend | GSA On-demand Webinar

According to Everest Group, 43% of service providers are actively seeking to increase prices on existing contracts. Globally, there has been an average of a 6% increase in price requested by service providers.

Join Ricky Sundrani, Vice President at Everest Group, in this webinar hosted by GSA to explore:

  • What are the increased pricing trends across technology and business services
  • What does the future of pricing look like
  • How to best address inflation in contracts
  • How to best negotiate price increases
  • How can we ensure that price increases are reaching the employees of service providers
  • Should there be industry standard guidelines on how to approach this subject

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When

Presented live on Thursday, April 21, 2022

Presenters

Ricky Sundrani
Vice President, Everest Group

Mark Crichard
Partner – Commercial, Technology and Outsourcing, RPC

Kerry Hallard
CEO of the GSA

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9 Outsourcing Myths Debunked | In the News

The global IT services industry has emerged from two-plus years of a global pandemic to establish itself as even more vital to the success of enterprise IT organizations. As corporate IT looks to manage unrelenting demand for technology-enabled change in a challenging talent environment, outsourcing partnerships have proved pivotal.

“Companies are finding it exceedingly hard to find skilled talent especially in the US and Europe, and consequently outsourcing (and offshoring) are becoming important for companies to access talent in labor markets such as India,” says Jimit Arora, Partner at Everest Group.

Read more in CIO

Record Net Employee Addition by TCS, Accenture in Last One Year | In the NEws

Information technology giants Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Accenture reported record net employee addition in the last one year with over a lakh increase in headcount by each, indicating strong demand and business momentum in the coming quarters. Employee addition is one of the key measures indicating the business outlook.

According to Yugal Joshi, Partner at Everest Group, a global research firm, hiring is indeed a strong indicator of demand. However, service providers do not reveal their hiring trends globally, but are generally focused on India.

Read more in The Hindu Business Line

Deconstructing the Future of Work | In the News

Four-day weeks, on-demand pay, “rural” talent, digital workers… in recent times, we’ve heard these ideas accompanied by seemingly teleological questions about work as a construct.

The timing is understandable given the confluence of factors at play – the rise of digital, labor pyramid issues, and the after-effects of a global pandemic, including a desire for more meaning in work and convenience through remote work. After years of navel-gazing, society is finally waking up to the fact that our jobs, the way we do them, the time we spend, and the very fundamentals of the nature of work itself are perhaps incongruent with the world we now live in.

This realization opens up the very promising possibility of re-examining and perhaps reconstructing work for the new era. But, beyond the clarion call, what exactly does it entail, how do we understand the future of work, and how do we design for it? Fundamentally, we can break it down into three distinct components: the how, the where, and the who.

Read the full article on Business Reporter

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