{"id":126228,"date":"2015-11-13T07:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126228"},"modified":"2015-11-13T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T13:21:35","slug":"the-tech-talent-shortage-is-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126228","title":{"rendered":"The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/11\/12\/the-tech-talent-shortage-is-a-lie\/#.laeyhf:FKDH\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But you knew that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Huffington Post called the shortage \u201cdevastating,\u201d and the Obama administration\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology predicted a shortfall of 1 million technical professionals by 2020. What\u2019s more, 90 percent of executives report that they struggle to recruit and retain tech talent.<\/p>\n<p>But as an engineer, founder and tech executive, I see a certain absurdity in this conversation \u2014 I\u2019ve never thought talented people are particularly tough to find. Perhaps I don\u2019t understand because I\u2019m lucky and haven\u2019t faced the same challenges as other tech CEOs, but I don\u2019t think so. I think I, too, have lived those experiences.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I\u2019ve come to believe the so-called \u201ctalent shortage\u201d is a lie \u2014 the real shortage is of companies that are willing to invest in talented people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. But you knew that. The Huffington Post called the shortage \u201cdevastating,\u201d and the Obama administration\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology predicted a shortfall of 1 million technical professionals by 2020. What\u2019s more, 90 percent of executives report that they struggle to recruit and retain tech talent. But as an engineer, founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126229,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126228\/revisions\/126229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}