We’ve all heard about how difficult the job market is on the applicant side, with candidates getting very little response from prospective employers. But the hiring side isn’t much easier. Changing demographics, fast-evolving technologies, and the globalization of job opportunities make recruiting and holding onto skilled professionals much more difficult.
And there’s no end in sight. In fact, virtually everybody expects the pace to pick up. Moreover, everything we’ve experienced with gen AI so far will probably be repeated with other innovations including quantum computing, ambient intelligence, and others that haven’t been released yet. As technology continues to change more rapidly than ever, CIOs who want to build and maintain a team with the right skills will need to do these four things.
Be more proactive developing talent from within
IT consultancy Pariveda, with around 700 employees, has always strove to grow the newest skills in-house. The company pushes all its employees, even down to the most junior levels, to read up on emerging trends and experiment. And since the latest hot topic is gen AI, employees are told that as long as they don’t use proprietary information or customer code, they should explore new tools to help develop software. And if they find things that are valuable, they should share them with the rest of the company. “We’ve had folks working with machine learning and AI algorithms for decades,” says Sam Gobrail, the company’s senior director for product and technology. “Now we’re telling them to roll up their sleeves and try all the new gen AI offerings out there.”
