Doing Business in Silicon Valley – Attracting and Retaining Talent
I recently spent time with the “Chief Talent Officer” of a major Silicon Valley company and a group of Executive MBA students from Europe. For almost 3 hours we discussed how recruiting and retaining talent has evolved in Silicon Valley. Let’s start with the brutal facts. In key technology area, Silicon Valley has a negative unemployment rate. There are more job openings than there are people to fill the jobs. The problem is extreme in emerging, high-growth technologies suc