Operations, Resource, and Events Manager RTX Tucson, Arizona, United States
Creativity and networking events like hackathons attract a diverse group of participants, willing to give their day or weekend in the pursuit to accomplish a technical feat with a rag tag team in a limited amount of time. The output of these teams is tremendous and highlight the capability of human ingenuity. The invaluable skills utilized for hackathons can impact and strengthen engineering teams across any project.
With the shortage of technical talent across the industry, companies must create a competitive edge to meet the demand. New engineers bring fresh perspectives which drives innovation but are often stifled by role assignments. Hackathons uncover, empower, and unleash hidden abilities in the realm of engineering and encourage career path adjustments to reduce attrition. This talk covers the benefit of leveraging hackathons to attract and retain talent.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how to find alternate streams of talent as the current talent pipeline is not robust enough to deal with the demand, even with AI companions.
Describe how to augment or enhance technical skillsets through events like hackathons.
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