It also established the Information Systems Organization Academy for high school and college students, which has a required curriculum of technical and professional development courses. The company has openings in Hartford for people with experience in Visual Basic, Sybase Inc. and Web technologies. One unusual source of IT talent is employees who choose to return to a former employer. After a period of time, they may be eligible to have their previous years of service reinstated, says Miki Dickinson, vice president of staffing and development at Travelers. In addition, Travelers' Leadership Development Program takes 20 promising graduates and puts them through rigorous training, rotating participants through various IT disciplines to groom technology-savvy future executives.
Travelers also brings in scores of interns each summer.
Incentive programs and stock options help Travelers compete for the caliber of IT professional who otherwise might be lured by software development firms. Stamford One software development company that's growing fast is TSI International Software Ltd., located just northeast of Stamford. The company makes Mercator software, which integrates all major applications in an enterprise. TSI is looking to hire about 50 people, primarily systems analysts, to keep up with the enterprise application integration market, which is growing rapidly and placing huge demands on companies, says CEO Connie Galley. Inc. All rights reserved.