CompTIA plans to address the growing IT skills deficit by teaming up with educators to develop more technology curriculum and enlisting mentoring organizations to inspire the next generation of workers.
The IT services sector is already unable to fill 15 percent of vacant positions, and the problem is only expected to get worse with millions of IT worker retirements expected in the next eight years, said CompTIA president and CEO Todd Thibodeaux.
Today, the industry isn’t even attracting enough workers to cover impeding retirements, Thibodeaux said Tuesday during a State of the Industry address, much less the growth expected from emerging fields such as automation and robotics.
