# Talent

Concept · [Talent and hiring](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/talent)

Also called: tech talent, local talent, hiring, hire, talent pipeline, workforce

The skilled people a company can hire or work with, such as [software engineers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer) and designers. People say 'tech talent' for those who build software.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) has funding and a plan but nobody to build the product. The founder posts the role in a local tech community to reach [engineers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer).

## Connects to (82)

- [Software engineer](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer): A person who designs, writes and maintains code for a living.
- [Recruiter](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/recruiter): A person whose job is to find and contact candidates for open roles.
- [Startup ecosystem](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/startup-ecosystem): The people, money and organizations in one place that help new companies start and grow.
- [Brain drain](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/brain-drain): When skilled people leave a place for jobs elsewhere, so the place loses the talent it trained.
- [Techlahoma jobs channel](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techlahoma-jobs-channel): The #jobs channel in the Techlahoma Slack, where members post open tech roles.
- [Job description](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/job-description): A short written summary of a role: what the person will do, the skills it needs, who they report to and how it is paid.
- [Internship](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/internship): A short stint of work, usually paid, for a student or recent graduate, often over a summer.
- [Slack](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/slack): A team chat tool owned by Salesforce.
- [User group](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/user-group): A club of people who use or study the same technology and meet regularly to share what they learn.
- [Meetup](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meetup): An informal, recurring gathering of people with a shared interest.
- [Moonlighting](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/moonlighting): Doing paid work on the side, outside a full-time job.
- [Economic development organization](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/economic-development-organization): An organization whose job is to grow the economy of a city, region or state.
- [Coding bootcamp](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/coding-bootcamp): A short, intensive course that teaches people to write software, usually in months instead of the years a degree takes.
- [Tech conference](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-conference): A one-day or multi-day event with talks, workshops and hallway conversations about technology.
- [Tulsa Remote](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-remote): A program that gives a relocation grant to remote workers who move to Tulsa and connects them through a member community.
- [Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-cyber-innovation-institute): A cybersecurity research institute led by the University of Tulsa.
- [Cyber Skills Center](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cyber-skills-center): A set of tech boot camps at Tulsa Community College, launched by the college and Tulsa Innovation Labs.
- [Experience Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/experience-tulsa): A program that connects new, longtime and prospective Tulsans to the city through events, city visits and a hub of resources.
- [Tulsa Visa Network](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-visa-network): An Experience Tulsa program that helps skilled international workers in science and technology fields, and their families, move to and…
- [Campus Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/campus-tulsa): An internship program for college students in Tulsa.
- [Tulsa Service Year](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-service-year): A one-year paid fellowship that brings recent college graduates to Tulsa to work at local nonprofits.
- [Atlas School](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/atlas-school): A software development school in downtown Tulsa, formerly Holberton School Tulsa.
- [Tulsa Tech Hub](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-tech-hub): A regional effort to make Tulsa a center for autonomous systems, such as drones.
- [STEM Intern Partnership](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ocast-stem-intern-partnership): An OCAST program that helps Oklahoma companies pay science and technology students to work as interns on innovation projects.
- [University of Tulsa Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/university-of-tulsa-cie): The University of Tulsa's center for student and faculty entrepreneurship.
- [OU Polytechnic Institute](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ou-polytechnic-institute): A University of Oklahoma institute with programs at OU-Tulsa and OU-Norman that offers applied technology degrees, including applied…
- [Tulsa Community College](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-community-college): Tulsa's public community college.
- [Tulsa Tech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-tech): Tulsa's public career and technology education district.
- [TYPROS](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/typros): Tulsa's Young Professionals, a community development initiative of the Tulsa Regional Chamber.
- [Black Tech Street](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/black-tech-street): A Tulsa organization that works to revitalize historic Black Wall Street, the Greenwood district, through technology and innovation.
- [Urban Coders Guild](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/urban-coders-guild): A Tulsa nonprofit that gives free computer science education to middle and high school students from groups that are underrepresented in…
- [Mozilla](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/mozilla-tulsa): The organization behind the Firefox web browser.
- [Techlahoma Slack](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techlahoma-slack): Techlahoma's Slack workspace, where technologists across Oklahoma ask questions, share events and post jobs.
- [200OK](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/200ok): Techlahoma's annual one-day tech conference in Tulsa, with talks for web professionals and other people who build technology.
- [ThunderPlains](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/thunderplains): Techlahoma's annual web and mobile developer conference in Oklahoma City, organized by volunteers.
- [OK Coders](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ok-coders): Techlahoma's coding education program.
- [Tulsa Web Devs](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-web-devs): A Tulsa user group for web developers, part of the Techlahoma network.
- [Tulsa Game Devs](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-game-devs): A Tulsa user group for people who make games, part of the Techlahoma network.
- [SheCodesOKC](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/shecodesokc): An Oklahoma City network of female and non-binary technologists who meet each month to learn and support each other.
- [BSidesOK](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bsidesok): A volunteer-run community security conference held in the Tulsa area.
- [Meta](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/meta): The company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
- [Oklahoma Women in Technology](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/okwit): A nonprofit for women who work in technology in Oklahoma, started in 2016.
- [Oklahoma Innovative Technology Alliance](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oita): An alliance of technology and IT companies that have their headquarters in Oklahoma.
- [Management information systems](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/management-information-systems): A field of study, and a common university major in business schools, about how organizations use technology and data to run.
- [Standard Occupational Classification](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/standard-occupational-classification): The official US system that sorts jobs into numbered occupations.
- [FAANG](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/faang): Shorthand for a handful of the largest US tech companies, originally Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google.
- [LinkedIn](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/linkedin): A social network for work.
- [JobsEQ](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/jobseq): A labor market data tool from Chmura that shows job openings, wages and workforce trends for a region.
- [Coursera](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/coursera): An online learning platform with courses and professional certificates from universities and companies.
- [Riipen](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/riipen): A platform that connects college students and instructors with employers for short, real work projects as part of a course.
- [American Job Centers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/american-job-centers): A nationwide network of local workforce offices set up under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and supported by the US…
- [Apprenticeship](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/apprenticeship): A paid job that includes structured training, so a person learns a trade or skill while working under experienced staff.
- [Big Brothers Big Sisters](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/big-brothers-big-sisters): A national youth mentoring organization that creates one-to-one mentoring relationships between adult volunteers and young people, through…
- [CompTIA](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/comptia): A credentialing organization for technology workers that describes itself as the largest vendor-neutral one, with certifications such as…
- [CompTIA A+](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/comptia-a-plus): CompTIA's entry-level IT certification, which CompTIA calls the industry standard for starting an IT career.
- [Google Developer Groups on Campus](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google-developer-groups-on-campus): Google's program for student developer groups at universities and colleges.
- [Professional certificate](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/professional-certificate): A credential that shows a person has passed training or an exam in a specific job skill, such as IT support, cloud or project management.
- [Western Governors University](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/western-governors-university): An online, nonprofit, accredited university founded by a group of US governors.
- [Work-integrated learning](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/work-integrated-learning): Education that formally combines a student's studies with real work in a workplace, for example co-op terms, internships, apprenticeships…
- [Workforce development](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/workforce-development): Training and support that help people gain the skills employers need, often paid for in part by government or philanthropy.
- [ATD Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/atd-tulsa): The Tulsa chapter of the Association for Talent Development, for people who design and run training at work.
- [Oklahoma CareerTech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/careertech): The Oklahoma state agency for career and technology education, with tech centers on campuses across the state.
- [Hacklahoma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hacklahoma): The student-run hackathon at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
- [HackOKState](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hackokstate): Oklahoma State University's 24-hour hackathon in Stillwater, open to students from any college and to beginners as well as experienced…
- [Hurricane Hackathon](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hurricane-hackathon): A 24-hour hackathon for University of Tulsa students, run by the university's AI and machine learning student club and sponsored by its…
- [Northeast Oklahoma Regional Alliance](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/northeastern-oklahoma-regional-alliance): A 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on economic development, advocacy and collaboration among the rural counties of northeast Oklahoma.
- [NYU Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/nyu-tulsa): New York University's programs in Tulsa, made possible by a collaboration with the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
- [Oklahoma City Community College](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/occc): A community college in Oklahoma City with more than 80 degree and certificate programs, over 30 of them fully online.
- [Oklahoma Employment Security Commission](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oesc): The Oklahoma state agency for unemployment insurance and employment services.
- [Oklahoma City Thunder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/okc-thunder): Oklahoma City's NBA team.
- [Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-rehabilitation-services): The Oklahoma state agency that helps people with disabilities find and keep work, through local vocational rehabilitation offices and…
- [Women in Tech Summit](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-women-in-tech-summit): A summit for women in technology and their allies that Oklahoma Women in Technology hosts with InnoTech Oklahoma in Oklahoma City.
- [Oklahoma Workforce Commission](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-workforce-commission): The coordinating body for workforce development across Oklahoma, created under the Oklahoma Workforce Transformation Act.
- [Oklahoma Works](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-works): Oklahoma's statewide workforce partnership of several agencies, with offices that connect job seekers and employers.
- [Oral Roberts University](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oral-roberts-university): A Christian liberal arts university in Tulsa with undergraduate, graduate and online programs, including degrees in computer science and…
- [OSU-Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/osu-tulsa): Oklahoma State University's downtown Tulsa campus, in the Historic Greenwood District, which offers OSU undergraduate and graduate degrees…
- [Rogers State University](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/rogers-state-university): A public university based in Claremore, in the Tulsa metro area, with campuses in Claremore, Bartlesville and Pryor.
- [Women+ in Tech of Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/women-plus-in-tech-tulsa): A Tulsa community for women with careers in technology that offers networking, mentorship, professional development and certification and…
- [Work Ready Oklahoma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/workready): An Oklahoma Human Services program, part of the state's TANF work strategy, whose employment centers give workshops, job preparation and…
- [Get on Board](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/get-on-board): TYPROS and Leadership Tulsa prepare young professionals for nonprofit board service through an application-based board internship.
- [918 Lead](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/918-lead): A one-day TYPROS intensive introducing young professionals to community leadership and civic engagement with the Tulsa Regional Chamber.
- [Lead Forward](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/lead-forward): A TYPROS program offering education and resources centered on diversity, equity and inclusion.

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