On Tuesday night, Members of Metro Council voted on incentive plans with the goal of creating jobs. The bills are part of the Dean administration’s economic recovery effort. It’s exciting to see Metro City Council’s Incentive Plans To Boost Employment at a time when the city is looking to attract new talent. There was also a recent article in the Nashville Post which address the fact that Nashville does not presently have the workers to fill these jobs. With 900 new tech-related jobs being added in the next few years, some wonder where the workers to fill those jobs are going to come from?
As you know, the NTC just launched NashHire which has been gaining momentum. We hope this is one way to start getting the word out to a broad audience that “Nashville is Hiring”.
“It’s so exciting to hear about all of the technology jobs moving to Nashville,” said Tori Lennon, Manager, National Talent Acquisition for Healthways. “One of the ways to meet this demand will be through stronger partnerships with colleges and universities across the country. It’s going to be more important than ever for Nashville employers and technology associations to have a presence with these schools. Nashville has so much to offer and it’s important that we get the word out to students and offer opportunities to complete technology related internships with local companies. Through internships, companies have the opportunity to begin building a pipeline of future IT talent that will already know the organization and bring immediate value to the job. It’s also going to be important for companies to champion social networking as a recruiting method. This is the quickest way to get the word out on both the local and national level about job opportunities in Nashville.”
The Nashville Technology Council hopes the T3 initiative can help build stronger partnerships with colleges and universities. If you would like to get involved with T3, you can learn more about it here. You can also follow “NashHire” on Twitter @NashHire for job updates and info. Help us spread the word that Nashville is Hiring!
