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Cultivating Tech Talent for the Future

Dive into the evolving tech landscape and explore cultivating tech talent for the future. Discover in-demand skills, soft skills, challenges, opportunities, initiatives like Hacking for Defense, women in tech, Cyber Day, and more. Find key takeaways and engage in the global war for tech talent. Connect with John Guo for behavioral cybersecurity research partnerships. Contact: guocx@jmu.edu

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Cultivating Tech Talent for the Future

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  1. Cultivating Tech Talent for the Future COVITS 2019 John Guo, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Computer Information Systems

  2. The Now & Then In-Demand Skills (JMU CIS) Host-based Web-based Function-based 15+ Years Ago C/C++ VB/VBA COBOL HTML/CSS/Java 5-10 Years Ago Java VS.NET (C#) SQL Open Source Today Cloud/AI Cybersecurity Analytics & BI (Visualization) Python/C#/Java Soft Skills

  3. Beyond the Come-and-Go Edges • Core attributes that produce performance differences: • Curiosity • Adaptability • Creativity • Passion • Vision • Stamina

  4. The Future Challenges and Opportunities • Changing demand: Quick shifts in the demand for skills. • The rise of the “open talent economy.” People are supporting and maintain your product without working for you. (Github?) • Diversity in tech talent.

  5. Incognito Leverage Workers

  6. Federal Government Turns to College Talents • Hacking for Defense (H4D) is an education initiative that was developed at Stanford University. • Leverage business startup techniques and solve real problems using various technologies.

  7. JMU H4D • Partners: The United States Army, The Marine Corps, TSA, The Asymmetric Warfare Group and many others. • Minimum Viable Product (MVP) being the major deliverable.

  8. Women in Technology • Women filled approx. 30 percent of tech positions.

  9. WIT, CAPWIC, and More… • 2019 CAPWIC focuses on: • High school students networking with women at multiple levels. • Recruitment, retention and progression of women in computing related fields. • WIT @ JMU invite all majors and minors and both men and women to join us in networking with technological firms.

  10. Cyber Day • Meet rising needs from recruiters. • Highest earners come from: Computer Science and Computer Information Systems. • Invite 30-40 middle/high school students to campus for a one-day field trip. • STEM • Teamwork collaboration • Innovation • Diversity oriented.

  11. Some Takeaways for Stakeholders • Be the change. Sparks interests and curiosity among the next generation tech force. Monitor churn rate. • Success requires equal parts tech knowledge and innate traits. • Act now.

  12. Other Concerns • The presence of State government at the Commonwealth colleges for tech recruitment. • User experience is key. • The talent pool is becoming borderless. Good & Bad. • Did I mention the enrollment cliff?

  13. Search for Entry-Level Tech Jobs

  14. Rapid Rise of International STEM Talents • China and India’s strikingly rapid expansion of their STEM workforce continues.

  15. Competing for Global Tech Talent • A war for global talent has been raging for decades. • Economic globalization: financial flow, product flow, information flow, talent flow. • Attracting bright minds around the world is aligned with our strategic interests.

  16. More Takeaways • Get out. • Engage. • Innovate

  17. A Short Message • My research interest lies in behavioral cybersecurity (e.g., insider threat). • Seeking partners for conducting behavioral research and data analysis. • Please contact me if you would like me to follow up on my research agenda. John Guo - guocx@jmu.edu

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