Sourcing for Innovation Catalyte

Employers face the increasing challenge of finding, hiring and retaining top technology talent. Most still use "traditional" sourcing methods that rely on resumes or existing skills. This limits the quantity and quality of candidates needed to advance business outcomes.

This episode explores new and innovative approaches to sourcing technology talent. Listen to Catalyte CEO Jacob Hsu discuss how employers can benefit from sourcing models that focus on a person's aptitude and attitude. Learn how to create more productive, diverse, affordable and longer-lasting workforces with nontraditional talent.

A Navy veteran with an established technology career, Karl was not a typical candidate for Catalyte's software developer training and apprenticeship program. However, with his specialized area of expertise no longer in demand, Karl spent nearly a decade looking for a way back into the industry. A Craigslist ad promising "software developer training – no experience necessary" proved to be that way back in.

Listen to Karl describe his journey, how Catalyte has its thumb on the pulse of diversity and inclusion and how he advocates for other non-traditional developers in this Sourcing for Innovation podcast episode:

Jamar Johnson was a mixed martial arts instructor when we discovered Catalyte in the mid-2000's. A successful graduate of our software developer training program, Jamar has continued to succeed in the technology industry. He is currently the director of quality and release management, HR technology and information strategy at Comcast. He also chairs Comcast's Black Employee Network.

In this candid conversation, Jamar shares his developer journey from a non-traditional background to leading teams at one of America's largest companies. He recounts how Catalyte helped him launch that journey.

He also dives into how the tech industry as a whole can do a better job using technology to create a diverse talent pool and build more equitable companies. Hint: everyone speaks "green."

Managing a remote workforce has its challenges and rewards. If you've been thrust into a remote working situation as a result of COVID-19, or are looking for ways to maintain company cohesion, Tom Iler, CPO of Catalyte and leader of Surge, a Catalyte company, has advice on how to maintain a unified company culture across a remote workforce.

For more information on how to establish, grow or maintain a remote workforce, please visit https://www.surgeforward.com/blog/ or https://catalyte.io/news-ideas/

The concept of an apprentice or apprenticeship goes back centuries. Traditionally, they were a way for people to learn a trade from a master craftsman, in return for helping that craftsperson with their business.

The technology industry is now applying that same concept to software developers – offering on-the-job-training as an apprentice instead of paid training at college or a coding bootcamp.

How do these apprenticeships work? What are their advantages for employers and employees alike? And where in an overall talent sourcing strategy does an apprentice model fit?

Eliot Pearson, Catalyte's VP of technical development, discusses the different apprenticeships and how companies can take advantage of this modernized form of training.

According to Forrester Research's Future of IT 2018 report, 50% of all digital transformations fail. With success being no more reliable than a coin flip, why even bother to undergo this process?

Greg Kintzele, principal of business strategy for digital transformation at Catalyte, explains why transforming isn't optional and how to ensure that your organization falls on the right side of the 50/50 digital transformation divide.