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Sourcing strategy and cross-organizational career development

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SIGSIM-CPR '14: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM conference on Computers and people research

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2599990.2602230

Published: 29 May 2014 Publication History

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IT departments have gone through many ups and downs in recruiting IT talent due to changes in the focus of IT departments over the last three decades, from back-office application development to strategic exploration of applications/technologies today. Complicating the recruitment and retention of IT talent may include several factors such as:

Rapid changes in technologies and the lag between the talent needs and educational institutions' ability to provide this talent

The evolving sourcing (outsourcing as well as insourcing trends) and how it disrupts a reasonable career development path for professional growth for new IT recruits

Significant amount of IT investment is tied to the maintenance of current infrastructure and staying current with the changing technology related threats (e.g. security) and opportunities (e.g. social media) calls for different types of talent that is becoming hard to recruit and retain

Lack of effective knowledge retention or management strategies to capture the expertise of those that leave an IT department

Loss of knowledge associated with application/technology that has been outsourced to external partners

Inadequate resource and time needed to support the development of talent as they seek to professionally grow, and others

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SIGSIM-CPR '14: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM conference on Computers and people research

May 2014

204 pages

ISBN:9781450326254

DOI:10.1145/2599990

Conference Chairs:
Damien Joseph
Nanyang Technological University
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Conrad Shayo
California State University, San Bernardino
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Program Chairs:
Indira R. Guzman
Trident University International
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Rajiv Kishore
SUNY at Buffalo

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SIGMIS-CPR '14: 2014 Computers and People Research Conference

May 29 - 31, 2014

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