Interview Series with Manu Varma
Channel: MherMardoyan Career Coach
Date: 19/08/2019

I think just like I said, merely just it just nobody wants to be referred to as a resource. Right? You know, it's just, we are humans the end of the day. And I think that what sets us up a social part of the organization is how we treat those people. I think just a nomenclature alone is Offensive! think there's a bit of a legacy, or a hangover, if you will, of that term HR, where you have this person that's sitting away in their corner office that does not understand the business, and they're just truly be there to be the policy police. So want to get away from that concept of HR and try to take it more forward, and like you said, just really focused on people and culture.

We both live in Vancouver, and we know that Vancouver is becoming kind of the tech sector north. But there's a lot of demands for technologically, but we are very short. So why do you think that Vancouver has become the tech hub? And what that companies are doing to attract those tenants to come to work here?

So I think there's obviously a big shortage of talent, for a couple of reasons. 

First and foremost, there's a lot of the larger companies that are coming in. But the problem with these larger companies, and I'm not going to name them, but they're really displacing jobs, right? They're not creating any net new jobs, they're shutting down other sites across the world to come to Vancouver. 

The other kind of interesting development is that every company is becoming a technology company, whether you like it or not, right? Starbucks, right. They have front end and back end developers and developers.  So with this proliferation of everybody becoming a technology company, there's a strain on resourcing, there's a word resource, there's a strain on people that kind of have that technical background. 

So that's and then what happens now we, we find that people are poaching talent, one another, which is also kind of feeding into this kind of hamster wheel, where we can't actually grow and develop our community, because we're poaching from one another, which is driving scarcity, which also driving salaries up for people that are really quite Junior, that actually don't deserve those salaries. It's creating a bit of an inflated bubble, which I lived through with the dot bomb era back when I lived in the Bay Area and I'm really scared that might happen here. 

The second part of your question, what are companies doing to bring more talent in, right. And it's, it's also an interesting one. I think, obviously, giving people that flexibility, and looking for and getting away from this whole concept of having ping pong tables and games at work. 

I think a lot of those, that once these benefits were really designed, I think that the intent behind those things was, I think, a little bit sinister, in that they're trying to keep people at work longer. As opposed to kind of have that flexibility.

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