July 11 (Portaltic/EP) –
He Technological Hub of Spain has presented its first Training Strategy on Tuesday, a document that includes a roadmap with which it seeks to promote the offer of professional training in the technology sector.
The Technological Hub of Spain is a joint project of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and five companies from the technology sector, which are Accenture, Experis-Manpower Group, IBM, Microsoft and SAP.
In the act of presentation of this Training Strategy, in which the five entities of the Technological Hub of Spain have been present. It has been recalled that, despite The ICT sector is one of the fastest growing has at a global and national level, it is one of those that suffers the most from the mismatch of talent.
So much so that 84 percent of Spanish companies technology is having a hard time finding the professionals they need. Globally, by contrast, the average is 78 percent.
To reduce this gap, the plan designed by the Hub establishes a series of training routes for the professional profiles most in demand in the field of Vocational Training. Among them, stand out ‘applications engineering’, ‘applied intelligence’, CRM/ERP consulting and cybersecurity.
“Dispose and retain talent Necessary is the main challenge, not only for technology companies, but also for all companies in general”, Bruno Chao, managing director of Accenture Technology for Spain, Portugal and Israel, commented at the meeting.
The director of ManPowerGroup’s Experis Academy, Fernando Aguilar, has pointed out that “public-private collaboration is essential to be able to incorporate the IT talent” that Spanish companies need. “We trust that these guidelines that we present today will translate in a short time into candidates that we can add to our organizations”, he added.
For his part, the executive director of the Public Sector of IBM Technology Spain, Javier González, said that this company “has a Consulting division that will have the possibility of employing vocational training students who will benefit from the skills and knowledge” proposed by the Technology Hub.
The director of Employability of Microsoft Spain, Enrique Ruiz, has insisted that “the main barrier to the use of AI or the ‘cloud’ lies in the lack of training of professionals”, so that this initiative of the Hub can “facilitate the access of more people to the digital skills necessary to grow in a labor market where the demands change rapidly”.
Finally, the director of the Public Sector, Banking and Insurance and Member of the Management Committee of SAP Spain has qualified that the creation of this Hub “represents a commitment to the ICT sector and a change in the public-private partnership model”.
