Can I poach you, please?
The competition for AI talent is heating up so much that even Mark Zuckerberg has personally become a tech recruiter
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THE BIG IDEA
The AI Talent Market Couldn’t Be Any Hotter
The competition for talent in the AI field is heating up so much that even Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is personally reaching out to Google employees in an attempt to poach them.
According to The Information, at least 2 sources confirmed receiving personalized emails from Zuckerberg, with one admitting to actively considering the offer.
And that’s not all.
Meta has taken other unconventional steps to attract AI researchers;
Skipping interviews and directly offering job offers to promising candidates.
Raising salaries for its employees looking to join rival AI companies.
Now, this aggressive recruitment strategy is not just because Meta has lately been losing researchers to Google, OpenAI, and Mistral.
It also screams the current seller's market in the AI industry - where demand for top talent far exceeds supply. As a result, companies like Meta are sparing no effort and expense to secure the best researchers.
In fact, Fortune reported in December that major machine learning conferences have become battlegrounds for tech recruiting.
Needless to say, the message is clear: AI talent is the hottest commodity around.
The question is.. What are YOU doing to be ‘‘poachable’’?
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