Presented by IndeedAs AI continues to reshape how we work, organizations are rethinking what skills they need, how they hire, and how they retain talent. According to Indeed’s 2025 Tech Talent report, tech job postings are still down more than 30% from pre-pandemic highs, yet demand for AI expertise has never been greater. New roles are emerging almost overnight, from prompt engineers to AI operations managers, and leaders are under growing pressure to close skill gaps while supporting their teams through change. Shibani Ahuja, SVP of enterprise IT strategy at Salesforce; Matt Candy, global managing partner of generative AI strategy and transformation at IBM; and Jessica Hardeman, global head of attraction and engagement at Indeed came together for a recent roundtable conversation about the future of tech talent strategy, from hiring and reskilling to how it’s reshaping the workforce.Strategies for sourcing talentTo find the right candidates, organizations need to be certain their communication is clear from the get-go, and that means beginning with a well-thought-out job description, Hardeman said. “How clearly are you outlining the skills that are actually required for the role, versus using very high-level or ambiguous language,” she said. “Something that I also highly recommend is skill-cluster sourcing. We use that to identify candidates that might be adjacent to these harder-to-find niche skills. That’s something we can upskill people into. For example, skills that are in distributed computing or machine learning frameworks also share other high-value capabilities. Using these clusters can help recruiters identify candidates that may not have that exact skill set you’re looking for, but can quickly upskill into it.”Recruiters should also be upskilled, able …
