Process Over People: The Way Around a Talent Drought
Headstrong's Rampi Kandadai tells Dan DeFrancesco that the best way to overcome a talent drought is about developing the processes, not the people.

The battle over talented, young technologists has always been at the forefront of those in financial services. However, as other industries recognize the value in strong programmers or designers, their demand has gone up and recruiting them is even more difficult.
This war for talent, which will be detailed in a July feature in Waters, has made its way into the mainstream. In 2013, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson starred in "The Internship," a movie based on the two stars trying to get a job at
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