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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. Yamamoto previously worked at Adobe, F5, SAP, Microsoft and BlackLine in marketing leadership roles. Seattle cybersecurity startup Zatik Security announced Zack Glick as its third founder and CTO.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key Microsoft 365 leader, overseeing areas including engineering and deployment of Windows for large businesses, and PC and mobile device security. ” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region.

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10 ways to improve IT performance (without killing morale)

CIO Business Intelligence

“Leadership is responsible for boosting morale and countering stressful times with periods of recovery, rest, and self-care, resulting in increased retention while reducing burnout.” Be compassionate Promote a healthy work-life balance, advises Adhiran Thirmal, senior solutions engineer at cybersecurity services firm Security Compass.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s general counsel joins Cisco; Outreach adds execs; Avalara expands board

GeekWire

He was previously an engineering executive at Oracle and SAP. Amrhein worked at Ariba and then SAP, following its acquisition of the business commerce network. Outreach has not yet opened its physical office in Atlanta but is already hiring there. He previously worked on security strategy at IBM. Damon Corey.

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

CIO Business Intelligence

Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals. We’ve had challenges in recruiting security roles as they’re short in supply,” he says. This often leads to non-compliance and millions of dollars in penalties, or people getting stuck in contracts with no exit.

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3 tough decisions for IT leaders to achieve a successful digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

“As the new solution would cut down the time taken from several days to less than one day, I showed them how it could increase their efficiency, enable them to go home early, and make the entire process transparent.” To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

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