Return On IoT: Dealing With The IoT Skills Gap

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By the end of this year, there will be 26 billion devices connected by the IoT.
An IoT skills gap may be standing in our way.
A recent survey showed that 76% of respondents felt like they needed more higher level IoT specialists and 80% felt like they didn’t have the skills needed to keep their IoT working as it is.
Another report showed that 1/3 of respondents felt there was a major skills gap in IoT readiness.
If your company is not yet feeling the pain of the IoT skills gap, take heart: you soon will.
The easiest way to deal with the IoT skills gap in your workforce is upskilling and retraining programs.
In fact, I believe we need to start looking at employee training and upskilling as a standard part of the IT budget.
There is truly no way that we will be able to maintain a solid pipeline of employees knowledgeable about the IoT without starting with training our current employees to do the work.
The more people knowledgeable about the IoT and your company’s plans for it, the more powerful your IoT will be.
You need to recruit employees who have the soft skills to shine in both environments—today and tomorrow—with the help of upskilling.
It’s more than just hiring for the hard skills like the knowledge of IoT.
So you’ve started working with your current employees and have changed up your recruitment plan, but still no luck in closing that IoT skills gap.
You may need to make some adjustments to become a company that IoT experts want to invest in themselves.
Demand for IoT jobs rose from 3,338 in Q4 2018 to 4,968 in Q1 2019.
What’s your plan for creating a solid, consistent, undisrupted IoT pipeline that your company and customers can depend on?
The IoT skills gap is a real problem that could cause the IoT to stagnate in your organization which could have major consequences down the road as this technology continues to proliferate all aspects of our lives

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