Technical.ly is launching a new channel in our public Slack meant to gather leaders from our community who care about hiring trends, diversity in tech, and how government, hiring companies and workforce development professionals can come together to strengthen our talent pipeline.
Last month, we at Technical.ly hosted our first Tech Industry Partnership meeting for this year during the 13th annual Philly Tech Week where we dove into the topic of early-career tech talent. The Tech Industry Partnership is a collaboration between the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce and Technical.ly, connecting the government to employers to ensure all stakeholders in Philadelphia’s thriving tech industry have a clear say in its future.
With representation from hiring companies such as Comcast, Lockheed Martin and CubeSmart; bootcamp programs including LaunchCode and Tech Elevator; universities such as Penn and Temple; and civic boosters such as The Enterprise Center and Philadelphia Opportunities Industrialization Center, we spent the hour exchanging ideas, sharing resources and expressing communal pain points.
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