Tech Strategy Report

THE WHY

ECOSYSTEM

GROWTH

TALENT

RESOURCES

Overview

Building Diversity

Developing Talent

Reskilling Talent

Educating Talent

Attracting Talent

Our Recommendations for Attracting Outside Tech Talent

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Leveraging Hello West Michigan and other talent organizations to target tech-related boomerangs and other individuals with ties to West Michigan.

Targeting tech workers across the country suffering from mass layoffs through a combination of strategic digital advertising and a rapid response team that would deploy information and resources in the effected communities.

Encouraging companies to actively recruit more workers from so- called “brain drain communities” to Greater Grand Rapids.

Expanding the reach of programs such as GVSU’s Applied Computing Institute to actively recruit past graduates who have left Greater Grand Rapids.

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