With high unemployment, growing high school dropout rates and increasing numbers of baby boomers reaching retirement age, the IT skills gap continues to grow, according to Terry Erdle, CompTIA Senior Vice President of Skills Certification.
Erdle opened CompTIA Colloquium today by speaking about how the IT training and certification industry can help match unemployed workers with IT jobs. There are roughly half a million open IT jobs in United States, many of which remain unfilled due to a short ...
With high unemployment, growing high school dropout rates and increasing numbers of baby boomers reaching retirement age, the IT skills gap continues to grow, according to Terry Erdle, CompTIA Senior Vice President of Skills Certification.
Erdle opened CompTIA Colloquium today by speaking about how the IT training and certification industry can help match unemployed workers with IT jobs. There are roughly half a million open IT jobs in United States, many of which remain unfilled due to a shortage of candidates with the right skills, he noted.
CompTIA is embarking on new workforce development programs to get unemployed individuals the IT skills they need to fill empty jobs in the IT workforce, Erdle said.
“We’re here to help the industry, and the best way to do that is to build the workforce,” Erdle said.
Erdle Opens Colloquium With Keynote on IT Workforce Development
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