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Skills Gap Tip #9 - Don't let the skills gap hold you hostage!

Skills Gap Tip #9 - Don't let the skills gap hold you hostage!

Can't find the people you need for all those tech projects? Get used to it! Baby Boomers are retiring and there simply are not enough people to replace them in this tech centric world. Winning the Talent Wars will require ingenuity! Instead of focusing on what you have 'always done' think about how you could do things radically differently! Low-Code solutions, like SageTea Software (www.sageteasoftware.com) out of Ottawa, Canada, are now available. They create an environme

Asean Economic Community fails to bridge skills gap

Asean Economic Community fails to bridge skills gap

Editor's Comments: According to the article, demand for highly-skilled workers within Southeast Asia is projected to grow by 41%, or 14 million workers, between 2010 and 2025. The goal of facilitating the movement of skilled workers within countries has merit but there are much broader issues at play here. Clearly a skills gap strategy needs to be put in place to grow the number of workers that are available overall and encourage professionals to stay within the region. **

Skill Gap Affects Cybersecurity

Skill Gap Affects Cybersecurity

Editor's Comments: This article provides some practical advice for companies trying to fill Cyber Security openings. ********** The skill gap is affecting almost each and every aspect of an organization, including cybersecurity. According to Cyber Seek, while there are 128,000 job openings for Information Security Analysts in the US, only 88,000 have been filled, indicating a talent shortfall of 40,000 cybersecurity analysts. The unavailability of adequately qualified talent

Collaboration is key to closing the skills gap

Collaboration is key to closing the skills gap

Most of us in the UK IT industry are aware that we are facing a skills gap. The demand for expertise in analyzing big data continues to grow, while Brexit threatens to make it harder to bring in skilled people from elsewhere in Europe. The question we need to address is what we are going to do about it. How can we make sure that the UK economy is not held back by a failure to secure the right level of skills in our workforce? This gap manifests itself in two different ways: n

The bigger picture: the right mainframe talent for the workplace

The bigger picture: the right mainframe talent for the workplace

The digital revolution is changing the face of IT and the skill requirements of those doing the work. Do businesses have the right talent for the future, and what about the mainframe world? Editor's Comments: This article hits on many of the things that I emphasize with clients. The key to closing the skills gap is being able to recognize you have a problem, build a plan and then execute the components of the plan - whether it be employee branding, new tools, apprenticeship

Xerox and EFI Sponsorship of SkillsUSA Helps Train the Future Workforce

Xerox and EFI Sponsorship of SkillsUSA Helps Train the Future Workforce

Editor's Comments: Skilled press operators are yet another industry segment affected by the skills gap. SkillsUSA has been going since 1967 and it is great to see Xerox step-up and sponsor the competition. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — July 10, 2017 — As a generation of skilled press operators retires, many managers at leading graphic communications firms and in-plant departments struggle to find qualified replacements. To help fill that void, Xerox and Electronics for Imaging (EFI) on

Keeping the Mainframe Alive and Well

Keeping the Mainframe Alive and Well

Editor's Comments: With the advent of big data large and medium size businesses should be looking at the mainframe as a serious player. In my opinion, while the mainframe is far from dead IBM needs to invest in some really creative marketing to the C-suite. As long as businesses keep going after the next shiny object and do not take the time to understand Total Cost of Ownership and apply it to their decision making - the mainframe is in much more peril than it needs t

New Course Brings Older Tech Workers Back to the Office

New Course Brings Older Tech Workers Back to the Office

Editor's Comments: Countries around the world are facing skills gaps and people shortages. Israel is implementing an innovative program that recognizes the value of older skilled engineering workers. Ironically it is the retirements from the workforce of baby boomers that is partially to blame for the gap. ********** YERUSHALAYIM - The shortage of high-tech workers has prompted the Labor and Welfare Ministry to bring back retired engineers, with a new training course that w

Improve education to address ICT skills gap in South Africa

Improve education to address ICT skills gap in South Africa

Revising the whole education system, driving broader access to the Internet as a learning and information delivery mechanism, getting the youth online and trying to adapt learning programmes to market realities are some of the ways to address unemployment among young people. This is the word from Brahim Ghribi, head of government relations of Middle East and Africa at Nokia. He believes SA and other African nations need to work on reviewing their education systems and help yo

In Kenya Real estate players decry shortage of skilled plumbers, masons

In Kenya Real estate players decry shortage of skilled plumbers, masons

Editor's Comments: The construction industry in Canada and the U.S. is facing a similar shortage of skilled artisans such as plumbers, masons and painters. One of the critical first steps to closing this gap is for parents and guidance teachers to encourage their children to go into the skilled trades. ********** Investors in the real estate sector have decried the shortage of skilled artisans in the industry. Their concern is that there are more engineers and architects tha

Pharmaceutical Industry Urges Better K-12 STEM Education to Close Skills Gap & Avoid Worker Shor

Pharmaceutical Industry Urges Better K-12 STEM Education to Close Skills Gap & Avoid Worker Shor

Editor's Comments: When I started specializing in the skills gap area a few years ago I had a lot of people say things like "What skills gap?" or "That's going to be like Y2K - a nonevent." Unfortunately, the skills gap/skills shortage is not fictional and yet another industry is reporting serious shortage. The cause of the skills gap is complex and a lack of high-quality STEM education is a major contributor. If you want to really understand the background on the skills ga

Australian Government boost for apprentice schemes set to help fill hospitality skills shortfall

Australian Government boost for apprentice schemes set to help fill hospitality skills shortfall

Editor's Comments: The skills gap is surfacing in a variety of industries such as technology, manufacturing, construction and, as this article highlights, hospitality. ********** Restaurant & Catering Australia (R&CA) has welcomed the Federal Government’s commitments to training more apprentices. R&CA CEO John Hart said that both the Skilling Australians Fund and Industry Specialist Mentoring for Australian Apprentices Program, which were announced as part of the 2017-18 Fede

Skills shortage hitting Scottish tech firms, survey finds

Skills shortage hitting Scottish tech firms, survey finds

Editor's Comments: Scotland is an attractive place to do business but the UK-wide skills shortage coupled with Brexit is hampering growth because 1/3 of tech hires come from elsewhere in the European Union. It will be interesting to see how all this plays out over the coming months. ********** A lack of suitable candidates for jobs remains a major concern for tech firms in Scotland, an industry survey has found. The annual skills and recruitment survey by trade body Technol

Rawanda Facing Skills Gap - Exim Bank of India commits Rwf68bn to integrated TVET systemUntitled

Rawanda Facing Skills Gap - Exim Bank of India commits Rwf68bn to integrated TVET systemUntitled

Editor's Comments: A recent Skills Audit identified that Rawanda is facing a skills gap. A new program in Technical and Vocational Education & training (TVET) will address this skills gap. ********** The Government of Rwanda and India Export-Import (Exim) Bank, yesterday, signed a financing agreement, worth $81 million (about Rwf68 billion), to support the establishment of an integrated Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET) system. The fund will go toward

Close Skills Gaps and Gender Gaps to Prepare MENA for the Future of Jobs

Close Skills Gaps and Gender Gaps to Prepare MENA for the Future of Jobs

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is endowed with a young, growing and increasingly well-educated population, which, if skilled for tomorrow’s jobs and offered new and productive employment opportunities, has the potential to significantly enhance the region’s growth. However, with 31% of young people unemployed, new and urgent action is needed to realize this potential. In addition, even when skilled talent is present – particularly educated women – it is not being dep

New Employment Opportunities - Bridging The Skills Gap

New Employment Opportunities - Bridging The Skills Gap

Editor's Comments: I commend the efforts of NAO (New Employment Opportunities) to close the gap between the skills of young people and the demand among companies for qualified personnel by addressing these problems in a systemic manner and not simply through isolated and ad hoc efforts. Their focus on scaling up effective models of vocational guidance, training, and job-placement services in an effort to increase the quality and relevance of job placement services and job o

China on frontline in promoting skills development in Kenya: diplomat

China on frontline in promoting skills development in Kenya: diplomat

NAIROBI, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Flourishing Sino-Kenya bilateral ties have lately focused on human resources development to bridge skills gap across key economic sectors in the East African nation, an official of the Chinese embassy in Kenya said. Guo Ce, Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, said Beijing has prioritized skills and technology transfer to empower local youth in its bilateral cooperation with East Africa's largest economy. Guo singled

AN AGEING WORKFORCE IS A GREAT RESOURCE

AN AGEING WORKFORCE IS A GREAT RESOURCE

Editor's Comments: The ageing or 'silver workforce' is a key part of the skills gap and yet few talent strategies take the opportunity of this demographic into account. Whether it is manufacturing or technology the issue is the same - too few people to fill the available jobs and a mismatch between the skills the job requires and those of potential employees. ********** The ageing workforce is an increasing issue facing modern manufacturing in the UK. Consider your own busi

Find out what NY is doing around the skills gap!

Find out what NY is doing around the skills gap!

Editor's Comments: This report is a 'must read' if you are concerned about the STEM skills gap and finding ways to close it. Part three of an ongoing series based on our recent PPI report: Bridging the STEM skills gap: Employer/educator collaboration in New York New York created close to 100,000 jobs between December 2015 and December 2016. Yet in many regions of the state the population is not growing. (Population increases downstate and in the Capital Region/Hudson Valley

How Tech Companies are overcoming the Skilled Talent Shortage

How Tech Companies are overcoming the Skilled Talent Shortage

Editor's Comments: To solve the skills gap government and business must work together. It is encouraging to read about this initiative by NSC. ********** Two Singapore technology companies share with HRM Asia why building their own talent pipelines is the solution. As the demand for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals in Singapore continues to outpace the supply, technology companies there are now taking matters into their own hands. While there we

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