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Making the Workplace Culture More Welcoming to Women in STEM
If the global engineering industry is going to fill the growing talent shortage for STEM positions, it’s going to need to attract more female professionals. However, many experts say entrenched […]
Closing the Engineering Talent Shortage Through Mentorship and Volunteering
From the U.S. to Indonesia, employers are struggling to fill a growing dearth in qualified engineers and other technical professionals. To combat the shortage, tech companies such as Bosch and […]
Closing the Cyber Security Skills Gap
The Centre for Strategic and International Studies recently conducted a survey of IT managers and discovered that 82% of employers believe they lack cyber security skills in their organization. Out […]
Five Reasons to Consider a Career in Cyber Security
This is a sponsored post from Digi-Key. October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S. Here’s something to be aware of: the workforce for cyber security is staggeringly […]
Global Cyber Security Threat Combined with a Severe Talent Shortage Presents Enormous Opportunity
According to a CNBC article on cyber security trends, a 2019 CEO Imperative Study conducted by management consultancy EY reports that CEOs see cyber security as the number one threat […]
Cyber Security Talent Shortage: How to Solve It
A recent report from Cybersecurity Ventures and Herjavec Group predicts that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cyber security jobs by 2021. (Forrest, 2017) While cyber security job openings continue […]