In brief
Training is essential to closing the skills gap over the long term. As digital technology reshapes markets and demand for IT and cybersecurity talent grows, businesses can offer better compensation to recruit talent in the short term and provide courses and online learning platforms for longer-term skills development.
Digital technology is driving rapid changes in global markets. For many businesses, establishing a successful position in the market often depends on their ability to recruit people with 21st-century skills. The European Commission previously estimated that, by 2020, Europe's information technology sector would have more than 750,000 unfilled vacancies, with the situation expected to become increasingly severe.
As the world enters the Industry 4.0 era, artificial intelligence and mechanisation are developing rapidly. Many industries around the world are exploring how to improve employees' skills to narrow the skills gap. The World Economic Forum also previously noted that, by 2022, at least 133 million new roles would gradually emerge worldwide as a result of a new division of labour between humans, machines and computing. Among these roles, the greatest market demand would be for people with IT skills such as programming、 and mobile app development.
Alongside these IT skills, cybersecurity has also received considerable attention from countries around the world in recent years. The Cybersecurity Workforce Study released last year by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC) estimated that there were nearly three million unfilled cybersecurity positions worldwide, with more than two-thirds in the Asia-Pacific region.
To address the skills gap, businesses can offer more attractive compensation packages to recruit talent as a short-term solution. In the long term, however, training is indispensable, including the provision of courses, online learning platforms and other learning resources.
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