Everybody wants to hire talent with ten-plus years of experience. However, according to every metric, half of the IT industry has less than five years of experience. Which means you are likely eliminating half of your candidate pool. As leaders, we need to hire and help early talent fill their gaps in knowledge and experience to become productive team contributors. This session will provide strategies and lessons learned from hiring and training over 200 recent college grads over the last 12 years through an immersive training program. You will learn how to make your early talent more successful, and your organization will thrive.