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Global study finds interest in STEM careers, but misconceptions and price barriers exist.
Job seekers, students, and career changers around the world want to pursue roles related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across different industries, but say they are not familiar with career options. At the same time, online training and digital credentials are emerging as a recognized pathway to opportunity as respondents plan to seek […]
Get skilled in Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in under 10 hours
Soft skills are essential to career resilience By 2025, some 85 million jobs may be lost to the emerging division of labor among humans, machines, and algorithms, according to a World Economic Forum report published in 2020, though 97 million more jobs may emerge that are better adapted to the new dynamic. But with the […]
Winning the War for Talent with Agile Learning
The term “war for talent” was coined by McKinsey’s Steve Hankin back in 1997 and was popularized by the book of that name in 2001. Back then, it referred to the intense competition to attract and retain employees at a time when too few workers were available to replace the baby boomers departing the workforce […]
Disrupt Yourself in 2022 : Prepare for the most in-demand tech jobs
From digital transformation to hybrid offices, the world of work is changing at a rapid pace — accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessary innovation in its wake. The Great Attrition is also happening. A record number of employees have or plan to quit. In the U.S., voluntary attrition increased by almost 800,000 in […]
Future of Work Trends: The Agile Learning Imperative
In 2020, the global workforce lost an equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs, an estimated $3.7 trillion in wages, and 4.4% of global GDP, a staggering toll on lives and livelihoods. While vaccine rollout has begun and the growth outlook is predicted to improve, socio-economic recovery is far from certain. Organizations and individuals which had […]
IBM Professional Certificates on Coursera receive college credit recommendation from ACE
IBM is pleased to share that we have earned official recognition from the American Council on Education (ACE). This recommendation will allow learners to translate their Data Science, Data Analysis, and Cybersecurity Professional Certificate completions for up to 12 college credits, or roughly one semester of college coursework, from participating academic institutions. Why is this impactful […]
Building Cyber Resilience – The Time To Prioritize Cybersecurity Is Now
Recent events have forced rapid changes in the world of cybersecurity, as it has in all facets of operations. While remote work is not new for some job roles, especially in technical fields, the workplace-wide shift to remote work has been sudden and wide-ranging, leaving security professionals with little time to respond. Similarly, while cloud […]
Top 3 Data Job Roles Explained : A Career Guide
Data is the world`s most valuable resource! Data is not recent, but it is growing at an incredible rate. The increasing interactions between data, algorithms, and analytics of big data, connected data and individuals are opening enormous new prospects. Enterprises and even economies have now started developing products and services based on data-driven analogies. The ability […]
Skill Up for the Data Job you want
Data is critical for any business as it helps them make decisions based on trends, statistical numbers and facts. Due to this importance of data, data science as a multi-disciplinary field has developed at a very accelerated pace. It utilizes scientific approaches, frameworks, algorithms, and procedures to extract insight from a massive amount of data. […]
Start on the path to lifelong learning and employability with IBM
In 2020, the global workforce lost an equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs, an estimated $3.7 trillion in wages and 4.4% of global GDP, a staggering toll on lives and livelihoods. While vaccine rollout has begun and the growth outlook is predicted to improve, an even socio-economic recovery is far from certain. As we look […]
Using Education to Build skills for Social inclusion Globally: IBM at Coursera Conference 2021
Improving the job market prospects and quality of work for those disadvantaged needs to be a focus for government agencies, higher education institutions and industry partners alike. Concerted and focused efforts are needed to improve outreach, quality and relevance of education and training, and improve the pathways to the world of work. Given the heterogeneity […]
5 growth engines driving the new jobs towards economic recovery – A summary of the Burning Glass Report, After the Storm
The recession left in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. The changes have been so profound that fundamental patterns of how we work, shop, socialize, travel and live have changed forever. If the world is going to have a recovery that not only brings the economy back to where it was but also […]
IBMs Popular Data Science Programs Now Available in Multiple Languages
The pandemic is accelerating the technological trends that were already changing the future of work: Automation, as technology creates new ways of doing work that once required human intervention Digitization, in which a 8 in 10 jobs now require digital skills Hybridization, where jobs combine skill sets that traditionally did not need to co-exist. For eg: […]
Accelerating the Skills Transformation for the Future of Work with Sonia Malik
As global markets tighten and unemployment rates rise rapidly, new skills requirements emerge while other skills are becoming obsolete. Listen to the following podcast and hear more from Sonia Malik to prepare yourself for the future of work in a post-COVID world.
Jumpstart your Career in Cloud Application Development
The ongoing cloud transition has been further accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis: Cloud spending rose 37% to $29 billion during the first quarter of 2020. This trend is likely to persist, as the move to virtual work underscores the urgency for scalable, secure, reliable, cost-effective off-premises technology services. According to Gartner, despite the inevitable economic […]
Thriving in the Age of Hybrid Work: Build career resilience with Skills
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the significance of data, AI, and digital technologies and accelerated the future of work to NOW! The world has gone from extremely tight labor markets, accelerated economic growth, and scarce talent toward high job instability, growing unemployment, and worrying recessions. Organizations and individuals which had embarked on the digital transformation […]
Skills Transformation For The 2021 Workplace
2020 has been a year like no other. It’s the year that a pandemic brought the entire world to a complete stand-still at the same time. We may not yet know how the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus will stack up to previous disasters, how the economic fallout will compare to previous recessions, […]
Jobs of Tomorrow: Opportunities and Skills
The COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns and related global recession of 2020 have created a highly uncertain outlook for the labor market and accelerated the arrival of the future of work. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report provides the insights needed to orient labor markets and workers towards opportunity today and in the future of […]