Conveners
Finding people? Educating people. Keeping people!
- Ieva Muraškienė (NORDUnet)
Description
IT sector is booming and constantly looking for new employees. This situation puts NRENs into a difficult position while recruiting for new talents. How to attract them? How keep them interested and dedicated? What does it take to make an attractive work environment to expect long-term commitment? In this session the NRENs will share their experience trying to attract and retain new employees, and bring fresh perspectives to our community.
Attracting and retaining talent with cyber expertise is quoted as a recurring pain point globally including for NRENs with recent data stating Australia will be short 30,000 cyber roles in four years’ time. Within the purpose built and sector focused AARNet Security Operations Centre (SOC), we’re keen to share the experience, challenge and strategies of building and retaining a people...
Information Security Campaigns are always a challenge for any institution. Elaborate content about technical area, many times besides being tricky, it is difficult to measure the final result. We would like to share the results of a project had the objective of changing the interaction strategy with the users. Traditional campaigns have hardly generated effective results with current...
Recruitment and collaborators retention are relevant problems for NRENs. In this talk we will present the GARR Academy: an immersive programme dedicated to high school and undergraduate students on technical, team-building and collaboration topics. In November 2022 the first training cycle was delivered focusing on state-of-the-art DevOps, orchestration and automation. Eventually, participants...
