The digital skills gap is becoming ever more important to address. It is growing for both mid skill and high skill level jobs and before you know it, companies that do not engage effectively now with the digital world, will be at risk of being left behind.
A report by the Open University in 2019 outlined that 9 in 10 organisations admitted to having a shortage of digital skills. The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2022, emerging technologies will generate 133 million new jobs.
Businesses are struggling to find the required amount of skilled people needed to fill this gap, to deliver initiatives to help remain successful, keep up with the ever -changing technical landscape and scale.
Graduates are leaving school lacking the digital skillset that is needed in employment. It has become clear that universities’ curriculums do not offer enough to the students to close this gap, and those interested have to seek additional training in order to gain the relevant experience required.
To address this problem, companies must invest in the training, reskilling, and upskilling of their employees. Today, around 1 million digital experts are missing. 35% of workers do not even have basic digital skills. This is a significant barrier for businesses. People need to be trained and re-trained for the digital transformation or risk the ability to remain competitive, impacting the overall economic sustainable growth.
- Harriet Trundle
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