Knod, founding member of CISCO’s Industry Talent Consortium.

Knod, General Electric, Xerox, MIT, Stanford U, Udacity, Pearson and others participate in this initiative to tackle the global skills GAP.

 (Source https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/industry-talent-consortium/)

The 2014 Cisco Annual Security Report indicates a shortage of more than a million security professionals across the globe in 2014. Employers are facing challenges finding people with the necessary skills for new industry jobs such as data scientists, cybersecurity specialists, industrial network engineers, mobile app developers and network programmers.

Klaus Schwab, Chairman of the World Economic Forum, encapsulates our current dilemma: “We have entered a global economy where talent and skills shortages challenge economic and business growth around the world.”

A skills gap of this magnitude is too big for any one entity to tackle; it requires a group of dedicated stakeholders. Toward that end, the IoTWF Steering Committee is introducing an Industry Talent Consortium.

It’s a gathering of employers, academia, industry change agents and human capital solution providers to connect talent who have pre-requisite skills to employers – after necessary training and certifications.

Key players in each of these areas will bring their subject matter expertise to the table:

• Academia (The New York Academy of Sciences, MIT, Stanford) will help prepare students through degree programs, professional development and in partnering with companies to provide training for the jobs of the future.
• Human Capital Solution Providers (Careerbuilder) will help identify top jobs, regions, supply/demand and skill gaps.
• Employers (Rockwell Automation, Davra Networks, GE) are looking to hire individuals for the new job roles.
• Change Agents (Cisco, Xerox, Rockwell Automation, Udacity, Pearson, Knod) will create education curriculum, training and certifications that will help train and validate the skills needed for the new jobs.

Working together, we will identify skill gaps, find talent with the right background to up-skill or re-skill, create and implement the needed training and certification programs, recruit them into appropriate degree or certificate programs and hire that talent for the jobs that will power the Internet of Everything. The Industry Talent Consortium is, in a real sense, a battle stance on behalf of our collective, connected future. The Consortium will continue to evolve, adding new contributing partners as its scope and scale increases.