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You Can’t Hire Your Way Out of the Cloud Skills Shortage

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clydeseepersad/& If you work with https://thenewstack.io/category/cloud-services/ – whether that be developing, deploying, maintaining, or other roles – you know that there are not enough professionals in the market with these skills. According to https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-02-09-gartner-says-more-than-half-of-enterprise-it-spending, 41% of spend just on “application software, infrastructure software, business process services and system infrastructure markets” in 2022 is expected to go to public cloud providers; this should increase to 51% by 2025.

The problem is that not enough of those employees have the requisite skills to be successful in a cloud role. The first thing to look at is upskilling and retraining existing talent in an effort to close skills gaps.

While it may seem counterintuitive, for many organizations facing shortages of cloud computing skills, it may actually make sense to hire individuals who are under qualified for a role and pay them while they complete their training programs.