By Bruce Johnson, Atlanta Journal Constitution
I work for Google, and having a full pipeline of great recruits is critical to our success. For any tech company, it isn’t unusual to hire only a tiny percentage of applicants, but when those ratios are so small, hiring more people requires a very large pool of qualified applicants. How can we maximize the number of qualified applicants? It’s a big and fundamental question for Georgia and, in my opinion, it is as much a cultural question as a business and education question. I believe that it starts with kids. Google’s analysis of its own engineers found that exposure to computer science in high school, or earlier, greatly influenced their school and career trajectory.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/tech-workforce-starts-with-1269790.html
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