Skills shortage news stories - Page 2

Asuria, employment services provider, and Junior Engineers, coding education specialists, have entered into an exclusive partnership to devise and deliver cybersecurity qualifications.

"Our research shows that the data centre industry in the APAC region is trying to expand and respond to growing data demand but being held back by a shortage of suitably skilled people."

“Organisations with a greater level of overall eCommerce maturity were 32% more likely to report that they have exceeded their 2021 performance goals."

The challenge for the industry is how to deliver investment against a backdrop of rising material and labour costs as well as a critical decarbonisation agenda.  

Australia's reduction in migration has created a shortage of skills in the economy, and the impact has been particularly severe on the technology industry.

The relationship between employers and employees has become more nuanced and driven by a desire for a healthy lifestyle beyond work.

“The past year accelerated our shift to a digital world and highlighted an even more urgent recognition of the problems we need to address to drive our economy and society forward."

"Digital technology businesses are having problems attracting, developing and retaining people with tech and creative skills needed to help New Zealand grow faster, especially out of the COVID-19 pandemic."

"In a world where digital technology underpins every part of our society and economy, we must not risk our digital future."

Microsoft’s ‘Reimagine Taiwan’ initiative will be bolstered by the company’s plans to create a new data center region in the country.

SnapLogic field chief technology officer Brad Drysdale discusses the roadblocks to a successful machine learning implementation and the ways they can overcome them.

HCL Technologies has signed a deal with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to modernise and manage Fonterra’s entire technology infrastructure.

As organisations throughout Australia make plans for the year ahead, it’s worth considering some of the ‘big picture’ forces that will shape the business environment in coming months, Veritec says.

The study interviewed almost 2,000 security professionals, 209 of which were Australian CISOs.

Cybersecurity is consistently rated as one of the most problematic skills shortage areas in the enterprise, Skillsoft says.

"It's vital for our sector to understand where the opportunities are to improve, so we can ensure no one is left behind."

Australia is among the world’s most challenging countries to train and hire staff to use new technologies.

The New Zealand IT industry simply isn’t marketed towards women interested in studying technology.

Callaghan Innovation says that New Zealand businesses still have time to snap up valuable R&D talent before the window of opportunity closes on September 6.

“When leaders prioritise investment in training, they retain talent and grow revenue more rapidly."

Techday spoke to McAfee MVision Cloud Asia Pacific regional director Joel Camissar about the drivers and the effects of the industry trend of outsourcing cybersecurity.

"Highly-skilled professionals will be in high demand and can access strong career-advancing opportunities."

Tech spend outside IT department creates opportunities, but increases security and consumer trust risks, finds world’s largest tech leadership survey.

New Zealand’s education sector needs to face up to automation and the way it will affect people’s jobs in years to come – and it needs to move quickly to do so.