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Cybersecurity Has a Serious Talent Shortage. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

So what’s causing the talent shortage? There are no signs that the bad guys are limiting their talent pool — and cybercrime is now a $445 billion business. One way IBM is addressing the talent shortage is by creating “ new collar ” jobs, particularly in cybersecurity. million unfilled positions by 2020.

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Examples of Organizations Who Have Top Business Training Programs

Clarity Consultants

There is a real war for talent occurring today. In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Bain & Company is listed as the best place to work in Glassdoor’s 2017 awards list. Bain & Company.

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business

When Army 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Riley was a senior at the University of Virginia, he ranked 10th out of 5,579 in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) National Order of Merit List. Today he continues to wear the uniform. But the protocols that almost led to his leaving the Army are an employer’s nightmare.

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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. Training is useful at times but often fails, especially when it is used to address problems that it can’t actually solve. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

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How to Gain and Develop Digital Talent and Skills

BCG

Article Wednesday, July 19, 2017 As digital transformation continues to disrupt the workplace, companies must begin now to hire, train, and retain new pools of skilled digital talent.

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