Cisco warns of "worrying" employment gap in the technology industry

The gap between the growing number of jobs in the technology industry and the professionals trained to perform them grows "worryingly" in the world, where in 2019 it is calculated that 450,000 jobs will be vacant, telecoms giant Cisco warned today.

Cancun (Mexico), Nov 7 (EFE) .- The gap between the growing number of jobs in the technology industry and the professionals trained to perform them grows "worryingly" in the world, where in 2019 it is estimated that 450,000 jobs will be vacant, telecoms giant Cisco warned today.

"What we see now is that there is a serious problem: although There are many opportunities, there is not the number of people who have these digital skills, "Laura Quintana, Vice President of Corporate Affairs of the signed in the framework of Cisco Live !, the appointment of the technology in Cancun (Mexico).

For the executive, the industry attends a labor "boom" that has been generated mainly by the increase in data generated by the high number of connected devices, which according to Cisco's own estimates will reach 50,000 million in 2025.

This situation has propitiated, he said, that technology companies should increase their workforce and put them in a "difficult situation", because "they do not find people trained to do it and proposes a challenge, "because he hopes that" the situation will continue "and" will become worse "with" the creation of positions that do not even exist now. "

" On this issue of moving to the digital economy, we need training. as "one of the four pillars" fundamental to contribute to the digitalization of the countries and as a problem that "must be solved" with public-private initiatives, because companies like schools and academies "are not capable alone".

"You need to build the workforce that supports everything (the industry). Sometimes you think you do not even need Think about this, but it has become a problem. Europe and Asia, Quintana highlighted the case of Latin America, a region that according to the firm "generates the greatest opportunity in the world" to provide technology professionals to companies, taking into account the quality of its professionals.

Citing a study by Gartner commissioned by Cisco, the executive also talked about the impact that "this opportunity" can have on the company. region, in terms of "the generation of jobs and the increase of the economy", since in this trend Latin America could host up to 770,000 jobs in technology in the next 10 years.

Figures that can counteract "at least to some extent," he pondered, to data that say that 25 million people are unemployed in Latin America, most of them Young.

The executive highlighted the case of the Cisco Networking Academy, the educational line that the technology of San Jose (California, USA), which has just turned 25 and has already trained almost 8 million people in the world, of which 1.6 million have been in Latin America, the region that most participates in the process.

Within the framework of this initiative, Quintana has seen how issues such as application development, business analytics, device management, digital security and privacy and networks are the most demanded as capabilities in the labor market.

"You can not imagine the opportunity, but also the complexity, we have to keep learning, because we know that with this fourth industrial revolution, things They are changing very fast, "she said.

By countries, the executive highlighted the case of Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Chile in terms of participation in the Cisco academies, which offer free programs in 20 languages �??�??on networks, security, IoT, programming and Linux and basic technology concepts.

"There are no countries that simply do not want to participate in this or who do not see the importance of investing in digital education. opportunity is within reach, we must seize it to overcome this gap, "he concluded.