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The digital world is growing at a pace where the skills of available manpower fall short of functional IT knowledge that could leverage big business solutions. Digital companies are set up with very particular industry focus. Hence, for young professionals actively seeking employment, there’s so much to learn and too few resources for them to be completely competent in IT areas such as persnickety analytics and big data management --- all worth billions of dollars when translated to consumer insight, market research, product designs, etc. The urgent issue is there – the need for more digitally skilled professionals, yet the real solution to the problem remains elusive.
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However, IBM’s Anjul Bhambhri remarks that the viable solution to the digital skills gap might just be underplayed. In his article, Bhambhri writes how the industry could meet the challenge through company-sponsored training which is a key to improving both data skills set and employability. Training professionals with insufficient skills is still the best way for companies to have their existing workforce adjust to new sophistications in IT, and to redefine its data skills demand in terms of who they need and the skills they’re actually looking for. Training is also crucial in organizations that prefer versatile individuals who could work across diverse IT tasks.
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Resolving the digital skills gap begins at a grassroots level – in school. Modifying the curriculum to accommodate vocational tech programs calls for renewed partnerships among schools, communities, and organizations which will direct future professionals to firsthand data science applications and equip them with on-the-job skills to cut through the robust world of big data.
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