( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the top talent.” The recent mass layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta came as a shock the thousands of workers who’d never experienced upheaval in the tech sector. [CutID: <Cuts> BIG-TECH-HIRINGS-house-q-WEDam.mp3 Time: 25s Title: BIG-TECH-HIRINGS-house-q-WEDam Out-cue: the top talent] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. No […]
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Still hiring: Big Tech layoffs give other sectors an opening
( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the top talent.”
The recent mass layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta came as a shock the thousands of workers who’d never experienced upheaval in the tech sector.
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Title: BIG-TECH-HIRINGS-house-q-WEDam
Out-cue: the top talent]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. No employer is making a more aggressive push than the country’s largest: the federal government, which aims to hire 22,000 tech workers in fiscal 2023.
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VERBATIM: Those workers are now being courted by long-established employers whose names aren’t typically synonymous with tech work. Hotel chains, retailers, investment firms, railroad companies and even the IRS have signaled on recruiting platforms that they are hiring software engineers, data scientists and cybersecurity specialists. It’s a chance for them to level the playing field against tech giants that have long had their pick of the top talent.