Hidden Talent: Expanding Early Career Hiring Beyond Traditional Pathways overlooked talent at smaller, less well known, affordable, accessible local colleges

Discover how you can reach overlooked and underserved CS talent from smaller, less, well-known, but affordable and accessible colleges in your backyard. Learn about the unique strengths of these CS students, their lived experiences, and how they can help to meet your talent needs. Hear from student service organizations ColorStack and Mentors in Tech, faculty working with these students, and employers hiring them.

The panel will offer perspectives from student serving organizations: ColorStack and Mentors in Tech, employer: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, college: Cal State Monterey Bay’s Computing Talent Initiative.