Sentences with phrase «tech skills for»

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A key driver of Atlanta's attractiveness to tech companies is its reputation for higher education, especially for churning out skilled engineers.

And if you don't have a website, now's a good time to create one,» notes Durazzi, who suggests About.me, WordPress, or Square for those with fewer tech skills and shallower pockets.

Digital Divide Data Digital Divide Data trains poor Cambodians and Laotians in basic computer skills — and then hires them to perform tech services for major U.S. corporations, universities, and government agencies.

Tech startups aren't just looking for people with the right skills on paper.

And while plenty of old - economy industries might object to any special treatment for the tech sector, it may be unavoidable if politicians actually want highly skilled workers and entrepreneurs to come to Canada.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

Dark web marketplaces and forums make malware and tech expertise widely available and — with plenty of hackers for hire and malware for sale — technical skills are no longer required.

From data science to engineering to IT and development, 65 percent of the skills on the list are tech skills, while marketing skills account for 30 percent.

«There are people with pure tech skills — for example, how to go direct to consumers.

With an established tech identity and access to highly - skilled employees coming out of local universities, Austin would be a natural choice for Amazon HQ2.

In Canada, for instance, a recently introduced Global Skills program allows tech workers to obtain work permits in just two weeks» time, compared with the roughly six months it would take to obtain an H - 1B visa stateside.

«You rarely hear a major tech company cite a dearth of available talent when it comes to hiring for a hot new skill set like virtual reality or robotics.

Because of its collaborative and free - to - use model, Becker says that an increasing number of employers are adopting open - source software platforms, which means an increased demand for tech professionals with open - source skills.

Despite the difficulty in obtaining visas, green cards, work permits, and even citizenship in the United States, America remains the first - choice destination for the overwhelming majority of tech entrepreneurs and highly skilled science and technology workers.

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Allow H - 1B holders to change jobs without losing their visa status and being forced to leave the country immediately — a condition that enforces lower salaries for H - 1B holders and encourages skilled immigrant arbitrage and tech «body shop» abuses.

While the immigration actions include more support for highly skilled foreign students and entrepreneurs, Obama did not expand the number of available start - up or H1 - B visas — a blow to the tech sector in particular.

And of course, it taught me a bunch of finance skills, which was helpful for running a fin - tech company.»

If you're hiring, the drum - tight talent market for anyone with programming skills should loosen up considerably, although big companies may reap the benefits more than small ones, says Oliver Ryan, founder of the tech recruiting firm Lab 8 Ventures.

Tech companies from Microsoft Corp to Intel have complained about being unable to find enough highly skilled employees and want Washington to increase the availability of visas for programmers, engineers and other specialized foreign professionals.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

In New York City, it's a job - seeker's market for those with tech skills, tech - oriented recruiting platform Hired.com told Inc.com when the company launched in the city earlier this year.

The increasing demand for high - tech skills is putting a greater emphasis on tech boot camps as the new trade schools.

The founder of Sandwich Video has gained a following for his pitchman skills, showing off geeky tech products to viewers in a way that makes their innovative brilliance shine through.

Trump is making it tougher for U.S. tech companies to hire foreign skilled workers on H - 1B Visa status, and this is causing a serious brain drain.

Making clean tech an innovation priority (p. 79, 81, 82, 95 — 100 and 100 — 111): This year's edition was billed as an innovation budget, so it's no surprise that Ottawa allocated funding for skills, research and more.

«When I first met Bryan Schreier, he had never worked for a tech company or traveled abroad, but he displayed unusually strong leadership and analytical skills.

A pilot run last summer trained 14 young people in kitchen skills, food tech, and social media, with case management for extra support and a chance to meet local food entrepreneurs of color as a highlight.

Sibyl is also the cofounder of Black Female Founders and the President of DC Web Women (DCWW), one of the longest - running tech nonprofits for women in D.C, which supports and advocates for women and girls in technology by providing a community in which they can develop and promote their leadership, technical and professional skills.

The goal of this program is for participants to finish the year with a new skill, a new mentor, a broader network and more resources to start, launch, or grow their tech startups.

By partnering with Brian Solis of Altimeter group, Cision developed an eBook on Slideshare that was used both as a tool for a PR audience looking to build tech skills, but also as a key part of a Solis presentation.

During my (almost) two years with Canada Learning Code, as an Experience Coordinator for the Toronto chapter, I've helped coordinate Ladies Learning Code workshops, Meetups (formerly Coffee & Code) and Digital Skills programs hosted at some of the most innovative, creative and richly diverse tech companies in the city.

Measures such as the Global Skills Strategy (GSS), which introduces a new two - week turnaround time for tech - worker permits, and an ambitious new approach to Work - Integrated - Learning placements, show the Government is listening to the concerns of Canadian CEOs facing talent shortages.

Part of this trend is the virtual explosion of skills training for high tech industries.

He brings technology to NoTime2Chill by employing a tech room designed for state - of - the - art ball handling skill and improvement.

Tech offensive coordinator Brad Cornelsen rushed for more than 2,000 career yards as an eventual school hall - of - famer at Division II Missouri Southern, so he was able to figure some things out with the skill set of last year's starting quarterback, JUCO transfer Jerod Evans.

Coding also helps kids learn problem solving and critical thinking skills, and encourages creativity, which are all skills kids will need for success in any future environment, tech - based or not.

In a small percentage of cases the skills of an obstetrician / gynecologist and high - tech equipment like ultrasound and fetal monitors are necessary in order for the mother or the baby to survive childbirth without long - term ill effects.

Gilbert also does tech support for a major technology company and volunteers locally teaching job - seeking skills.

At noon, Assemblyman and congressional candidate Anthony Brindisi holds a press conference to unveil his blueprint for helping train workers for high - tech and skilled manufacturing jobs, Plumbers & Pipefitters Hall, 11 Griswold St., Binghamton.

Jason: We're looking for folks that have both great tech skills, but are also (and more importantly) talented strategic organizers who are motivated to help progressives run and win boldly.

«I share the organization's commitment to making lives better for working families, improving our schools and infrastructure, and helping people acquire the skills they need for today's high tech jobs.

- Build a «high tech, high knowledge» economy, creating one million new skilled jobs and modernising infrastructure with high - speed rail, a green investment bank and broadband access for every citizen

Excerpt: «Chris knows that we have to invest in Oregon's community college and state university system to ensure students from all walks of life have the ability to study, train and update their skills so they can compete for good - paying jobs today and be ready for the high - tech jobs of Oregon's next economy.»

What the aspiring GOP candidates will need to mount a modern - day tech race are campaign veterans with a wide range of seasoned digital skill sets — for fighting TV admen over budgets, writing fundraising email copy that doesn't go straight to the trash bin and in using data the right way to find potential donors and voters.

According to EDC, the 240,000 - square - foot, 21 - floor facility would allocate six floors to Civic Hall — three for digital skills training center, three for the company's own operations as a center for tech innovation — five for «flexible» office space, eight for larger office space, and the ground floor for retail and market space, 25 percent of which would be reserved for first - time entrepreneurs and new local businesses.

Formed as a public / private partnership, Teachers Who Code will use the Girls Who Code model to equip New York City public school teachers with the computer science skills to educate students for high tech jobs of today and tomorrow.

High - tech gadgetry is very impressive to young doctors, and has long since, in the hearts of many, usurped the revered place once reserved for the clinical skills of history taking and physical examination.

To truly benefit the students of Tennessee, he added, «teachers must present the best peer - reviewed research; only in this way will students gain the strong understanding of science necessary to compete for high - skill jobs in an increasingly high - tech world economy.»

In 2008 tech industry giants Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, concerned that the job applicants they were seeing were poorly prepared for crucial tasks, began funding their own research through a group called Assessment & Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S) to identify and promote so - called 21st - century skills — roughly the ability to think critically and creatively, to work cooperatively, and to adapt to the evolving use of technology in business and soSkills (ATC21S) to identify and promote so - called 21st - century skills — roughly the ability to think critically and creatively, to work cooperatively, and to adapt to the evolving use of technology in business and soskills — roughly the ability to think critically and creatively, to work cooperatively, and to adapt to the evolving use of technology in business and society.