Luka Horvat – Head of Talent Operations – Toptal – Vetting Blockchain Talent for Businesses
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this interview, Luka Horvat, Head of Talent Operations at Toptal, explains how they are connecting the top 3% of freelance talent in various sectors, including blockchain, from all over the world.
Toptal matches clients requests with top tier individuals through heavy vetting, skills testing, as well as a matching service that ensures companies are finding that “right” person for the job. This results in time and energy saved in the hunt for that “right” person.
Toptal client needs for blockchain expertise has dramatically jumped in the past several years. To survive and thrive, the industry must find the right individuals who are highly qualified in the space as the demand continues to grow.
The entire blockchain industry is hitting a talent bottleneck,” says Luka Horvat. “Toptal's world-class screening process, combined with specialist training for its existing elite developer network, will support future demand for blockchain talent at scale.”
Toptal is doing the heavy lifting for companies, saving them time and money, ensuring the talent they match with an organization not only talks the talk, but can also walk the walk.
For more information, visit: https://www.toptal.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies |
| 0:08.0 | Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these |
| 0:14.8 | technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner for |
| 0:19.6 | Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.0 | Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th and 16, 2018, the blockchain and |
| 0:38.8 | a future check expo. This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people. |
| 0:44.4 | We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications. |
| 0:47.4 | We're going to be talking about quantum computing, |
| 0:49.6 | cyber security, artificial intelligence, and several other future technologies that are poised |
| 0:55.6 | to and actually changing our lives as we speak. |
| 0:59.4 | Here's why you should attend. |
| 1:01.1 | As you may know, early adopters are the ones that investigated and profited |
| 1:05.2 | from things like the Gold Rush in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet |
| 1:11.2 | boom in 2005, from the smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real |
| 1:16.6 | estate boom that ended in 2008, and of course from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now. They don't wait till later. |
| 1:25.4 | They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They find the biggest gold nuggets. |
| 1:30.3 | If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference. |
| 1:37.5 | Blockchain is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, |
| 1:41.5 | how we send money around the world, how we bank and more. |
| 1:46.0 | But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cyber security will play a pivotal role in |
| 1:51.0 | our lives as well. |
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