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Mining for tech-talent gold: Seven ways to find and keep diverse talent

30 Sep 2022 8:21 AM | Abbie Lunn (Administrator)

A wealth of diverse tech talent is available, if companies expand their approach to hiring them.

With businesses struggling to find and keep technical talent, companies cannot afford to leave any stone unturned. And yet they have been slow to diversify the talent pools they tap to recruit technical professionals.

While the state of talent diversity is a problem across most companies, the issue is particularly bleak when it comes to tech talent. In 2021, for example, there were 14 percent fewer women in entry-level engineering or product positions and 15 percent fewer in first-level manager positions than in other nontechnical roles. Similarly, our research shows that Black workers, who represent a 13 percent share of the labor force, represent only 4.5 percent of software developers.

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