Salt Lake City is committed to attracting tech talent. As a City, we are working to provide the amenities today’s tech workforce wants – lower cost of living, high-efficiency public infrastructure, transit options, cultural diversity, and collaboration space (among other things). But we’re living in a state where there are more job openings than people to fill them. Workforce Manager Jake Maxwell offers his latest thoughts on talent recruitment and retention in our latest blog. As always, we welcome your feedback.

After attending the 2019 Silicon Slopes Tech Summit with over 23,000 attendees, I felt the gravity of our growing Utah tech economy. Opinions of the conference aside, it’s no question to anyone who is impacted by workforce challenges that we need to step up production of our tech talent. More importantly, we must improve retention and find ways to better control the turnover cycle.

Read more here: https://slcecondev.com/2019/02/21/who-is-winning-the-race-for-tech-talent/