IT Skills Shortage Research Articles

Цифровая трансформация в социально-трудовой сфере: новые вызовы и возможности

The article presents an overview of digital transformation challenges concerning labor relations, workforce and social safety net programs regulations, with focus on the IT skills shortage, limited digital proficiency, the widening gap between college graduates and labor market needs. The current debate is for the most part being focused on the declining demand for labor force. And much more attention should be devoted to the ways digitalization is changing the structure of jobs and shifting the demand for skills. Though young people are more likely than older workers to have digital skills, a large number of them also join those who neither be employed, nor in education or training. And among new forms of employment, many of them do not qualify for different benefits which traditionally go along with the job place, such as employer-sponsored pension plans, health insurance, etc., and demand new social guarantees. So, the lack of government policy in bridging digital divide between the labor qualification and the demand for new skills among different groups of population (by age, income, other factors) may retard national digital development. Existing institutions and regulation systems need to be modernized in order to respond to digital changes. The federal agency on the digital platform should have wide range of functions, providing a framework that outlines key goals and objectives to ensure building digital entrepreneurial ecosystems; to aid, counsel, assist and protect employees, identifying key trends at the national and regional levels. Among the main directions of such agency’s activities – reskilling and training programs to prepare people for the employment challenges in partnership with business and colleges; through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations.

Orchestrator conversation: Distributed management of cloud applications

SummaryManaging cloud applications is complex, and the current state of the art is not addressing this issue. The ever‐growing software ecosystem continues to increase the knowledge required to manage cloud applications at a time when there is already an IT skills shortage. Solving this issue requires capturing IT operation knowledge in software so that this knowledge can be reused by system administrators who do not have it. The presented research tackles this issue by introducing a new and fundamentally different way to approach cloud application management: a hierarchical collection of independent software agents, collectively managing the cloud application. Each agent encapsulates knowledge of how to manage specific parts of the cloud application, is driven by sending and receiving cloud models, and collaborates with other agents by communicating using conversations. The entirety of communication and collaboration in this collection is called the orchestrator conversation. A thorough evaluation shows the orchestrator conversation makes it possible to encapsulate IT operations knowledge that current solutions cannot, reduces the complexity of managing a cloud application, and happens inherently concurrent. The evaluation also shows that the conversation figures out how to deploy a single big data cluster in less than 100 milliseconds, which scales linearly to less than 10 seconds for 100 clusters, resulting in a minimal overhead compared with the deployment time of at least 20 minutes with the state of the art.

How to maximize your investment in IT training

Purpose – To highlight the IT skills shortage in Britain and examine ways of combating it.Design/methodology/approach – Presents the advantages of carrying out a training needs analysis, psychological and skill‐based tests to identify an employee's current ability and willingness to embrace the training programme, and the advantages that blended learning can offer over other training methods.Findings – Too many organizations rely on recruiting skilled IT people from outside, rather than cultivating the IT skills of their own employees. Highlights the advantages of the latter approach and suggests that blended learning can be a useful solution.Originality/value – Argues the case for IT training as an ongoing part of an organization's operations, rather than a panic reaction to an immediate skill shortage.

Tackling the IT skills shortage

The increasing shortage of IT skills in the labour market is a source of great concern, and particularly in the business world. The crisis is not a technology shortage but a shortage of human resources trained in technological skills, and this extends through senior and middle management. Organizations will need to get better productivity out of their existing resources, through education, making themselves more efficient and by sub-contracting IT services and employing specialist consultants.

Tackling the IT skills shortage

Tackling the IT skills shortage

Education and training in office technology

In recent years the 'IT skills shortage' has received consid erable publicity, although the term has been used in a general sense, covering all aspects of IT in this country. The paper discusses the concept, its interpretation and the initiatives to combat it. The education and training of managerial/profes sional personnel in the uses of office technology is but a part of the problem, and the training provision for this sector is categorized and summarized. Finding appropriate courses is another problem and the sources of such information are also summarized. A small survey of organizations' perceptions of training needs was carried out and the results reported, indicat ing a desire for short in-house training courses, rather than academic courses leading to qualifications.

Solving the IT skills shortage

In recent years companies who continue to think in terms of old technology have fallen by the wayside, and lengthened the dole‐queues, either through lack of changes or because of fear of change. Technological change is not as bad as it is sometimes painted. True, in manufacturing industry we now employ fewer production workers; but then automation and robots on the production line call for more technicians and better maintenance — in other words more occupation of a high‐tech nature, not fewer jobs. Similarly in the service sector, we see fewer clerks and penpushers; but they have been replaced by highly‐skilled keyboard personnel: computer operators and technicians. Again new occupations, not fewer jobs.

IT skills shortage

IT skills shortage

The IT skills shortage and the universities

One of the sobering influences of the IT industrial revolution has been a growing awareness of the deficiencies in the UK educational system. This skills shortage is not without historical precedent, and an understanding of the mistakes of the 19th century may provide the key to our future labour market

IT skills shortage. Education for information technology

IT skills shortage. Education for information technology