Computer Engineering, IT Sector demands more skilled manpower is often misinterpreted. Cloud Computing jobs is currently facing deficit skilled candidates. Some companies having difficulties to get candidates with sufficient working knowledge. Open Source PaaS platform Cloud Foundry (CF) is an open source PaaS platform who talked about the difficulties companies are encountering. Previously, OpenStack Foundation has already highlighted these matters on current year’s OpenStack Summit.
What Types of Skills the Skilled Candidates Are Deficit For the Cloud Computing Jobs?
64% of respondents noted the shortage of skilled workers and states begin to suffer the negative effects of this situation. The editor of the portal ZDNet notes that the recent OpenStack Summit of Barcelona , in the wing dedicated to the stands of the companies, was actually tangible the high interest of those present for with cloud skills curricula. For companies who have just decided to land in the cloud, the shortage of staff has also reduced the possibilities to recruit highly skilled workers (57% of respondents).
Sam Ramji, CEO of Cloud Foundry said, usually large companies relied on third parties to manage their development. Now the digital transformation has become divided in many sectors including financial services, insurance, automotive. These are becoming crucial elements in the success of the enterprises; to manage the processes of change they must voluntarily entrust their employees. The growing need for staff to develop or deploy the software highlights the serious shortage of talent available for these rapidly expanding sector. This gap is rapidly increasing as more and more companies become de facto software companies.
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Why the Candidates Are Deficit For the Cloud Computing Jobs?
In recent past, the editor of ZDNet invites CIOs and IT professionals not to underestimate the problem because it probably will get worse with the passage of time. Both should act as quickly as possible all focusing on training.
Most valued knowledge is related to the database, the ability to develop mobile applications in Go, Javascript, C ++; deploy on major IaaS platforms like OpenStack, Azure, Google Cloud and AWS; continuous delivery and integration. To cope with the shortage of skilled workers, companies have started to invest by initiating training programs. The basic reason of deficit of working knowledge of the candidates for Cloud Computing Jobs deficit created by traditional curriculum of the universities. Employing workers from India in the Europe and the US with the hope of lesser investment is complicating the situation more.
If you are CIO or Employer, you should perform some research on the topic.
