Skills shortage stories

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 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.>>

“Companies are seeing shortages in digital talent but aren’t proactive enough in attracting and retaining that talent.”>>

Australia is crying out for at least 35,000 skilled IT experts who will be desperately needed to serve organisations large and small this year.>>

A range of skills is needed to secure modern infrastructure, respond to incoming threats, and ensure proper operations.>>

The global supply of analytics experts will double from 500,000 people in 2018 to an estimated one million in 2020.>>

Resilient businesses have a laser focus on cybersecurity, all too aware of the negative impact a breach can have. >>