{"id":19387,"date":"2018-05-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=19387"},"modified":"2020-09-18T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T00:36:32","slug":"addressing-the-skills-gap-how-businesses-can-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/addressing-the-skills-gap-how-businesses-can-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the Skills Gap: How Businesses Can Make a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New graduates are venturing into the workforce unprepared to address widespread tech needs, says Salesforce\u2019s president of the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. <\/p><p>\u201cMany of the students that throw their caps in the air\u2026 do so without the skills they need to thrive in the modern world, where every company is a tech company,\u201d writes Salesforce\u2019s Miguel Milano on the leadership news website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.managementtoday.co.uk\/business-responsibility-bridge-skills-gap\/future-business\/article\/1463755\">Management Today.<\/a><\/p><p>Milano notes that The World Economic Forum\u2019s Future of Jobs report found that 35 percent of core skills would change from 2015 to 2020. \u201cIt&#8217;s vital that universities offer more personalized courses to students and consider the digital skills they are going to emerge with,\u201d he says. <\/p><p>The gap in tech skills is also felt in the home of Silicon Valley\u2019s tech-infused Stanford University, the chief information officer of the City of Palo Alto tells Salesforce. \u201cTwo areas where there is now a huge demand for skills are cybersecurity and data science,\u201d Jonathan Reichental says in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/company\/news-press\/stories\/2018\/3\/0319181\/\">an interview<\/a>. \u201cIn neither of those areas are universities or professional organizations training enough people.\u201d<\/p><p>Milano points to several ways businesses can address the issue:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li>Offer more internship and apprenticeship programs to students, getting them into a business environment as early as possible <\/li> <li>Offer a job-integrated bachelor&#8217;s degree in business technologies, <a href=\"https:\/\/salesforce.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com\/External_Career_Site\/job\/Germany---Munich\/Dual-Study-Degree-Program-in-Digitalisation---Transformation---October-2018_JO-1801-64137\">as Salesforce is doing<\/a> with Steinbeis university in Germany <\/li> <li>Provide online learning for staff to learn skills relevant to their jobs in a supportive community, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/trailhead.salesforce.com\/\">Salesforce Trailhead<\/a> <\/li> <\/ul><p>The change calls for a deliberate culture shift in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Milano notes. \u201cWork needs to be a bigger part of education and education needs to be a bigger part of work.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New graduates are venturing into the workforce unprepared to address widespread tech needs, says Salesforce\u2019s president of the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. \u201cMany of the students that throw their caps in the air\u2026 do so without the skills they need to thrive in the modern world, where every company is a tech company,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sf_subhead":"","sf_i18n_disclaimer":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"alternateThumbnailId":0,"sf_product_cta_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"sf_content_type":[1735],"sf_theme":[1915],"sf_topic":[1766,1732],"sf_product":[],"sf_industry":[],"sf_role":[],"sf_multimedia_asset":[],"sf_location":[1724,1803],"sf_collection":[],"sf_visibility":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","sf_content_type-news-highlights","sf_theme-future-of-work","sf_topic-equality","sf_topic-future-of-work","sf_location-amer","sf_location-europe-middle-east-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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