When the pandemic-triggered Great Resignation brought waves of attrition to an already tight labor market, the leadership team at the software company for which I serve as CHRO knew we needed to tap new sources of talent in order to keep growing.
We also knew that while many people were leaving their jobs, there was a significant pool of highly- qualified people, many of them women, who were standing on the sidelines, wanting to rejoin the workforce but lacking a clear pathway for doing so.
