Recent Articles
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CompTIA’s Long-Term Solution for the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Here’s a great example of a trade association planning for the long-term growth of its industry, namely the computer technology industry. Earlier this year, CompTIA – the Computer Technology Industry Association – launched its National Career and Technical Education (CTE) Advisory Council, featuring representatives from all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto…
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Great Resignation Wave Will Hit Channel Hard
With more individuals being asked to return to the office on at least a part-time basis many people are opting to quit. Known as the Great Resignation, a survey of 30,000 people conducted by Microsoft suggests 40% the global workforce considering leaving their employer this year. Last April nearly 4 million people, or 2.8% of the…
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The Channel Embraces Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The IT industry can, in many ways, be considered a model of diversity and inclusion. When you think about all the inventors, engineers, software developers, and visionaries from all over the world who have contributed to the development of the core technologies that enable our industry, it truly is a gorgeous mosaic of people from…
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Women in Tech: What Needs to Be Done?
In the last 30 years, the number of women in technology has actually declined, according to Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President of Commercial Partners at Microsoft, in a recent TEDx talk, “Something needs to be done,” she said Directions Training President Jennifer Didier agrees – and she did something about it. “There is an employment,…
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Channel CTOs Need to Plug the Skills Gap
The single biggest issue impeding growth across the channel is not products or services; it’s the absence of people with the skills needed to implement them. That’s the assessment of Eduardo Kassner, CTO for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. To address that issue, his team will focus on proliferating skills across the channel by…
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Close the Skills Gap by Resolving the Confidence Gap
If you ask Amy Kardel, it’s all about people—people who need people. Kardel is the chairwoman of the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) board of directors and president of Clever Ducks, an IT service provider. She sees workforce challenges as the IT industry’s biggest challenges, including both the skills gap for technology service providers and…
