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redAcademy MD Jessica Hawkey is driven by a passion to drive positive impact in SA CAPE TOWN – Honoured as Top Tech Innovator at the 2024 Wired4Women awards, redAcademy founder and MD Jessica Hawkey is driven by an unrelenting drive to work towards closing the skills gap in South Africa. In doing this, she hopes to play a part in shifting the scales in the highly imbalanced ecosystem of off-shoring work, essentially taking billions of rands out of the economy so desperately in need of growth impetus. Change requires a shift in thinking, but she says this shift is already occurring. Hawkey founded redAcademy to create a skilled pipeline of IT talent for businesses, trained specifically for unique needs within businesses. The young people are work ready in a year because of a carefully cur...

By Jessica Hawkey, Managing Director at redAcademy As 2023 begins in full swing, we can all be forgiven for feeling as though we have been on a seemingly endless roller coaster during the past year. However, despite the surprises and shocks, one thing remained consistent throughout 2022 and is predicted to be one of the most pressing challenges in 2023, for C-suites trying to keep up with a rapidly digitizing world: there has been and will continue to be, a chronic IT skills shortage, especially a shortage of work-ready software developers. Of course, this is a tragedy because alongside the software skills shortage is a crippling unemployment rate, especially among young people, while from a business perspective, C-suites in general, and CTOs in particular, are being hamstrung in fulfil...

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Closing SA’s IT skills gap and reducing off-shore investment ‘requires a shift in thinking’

New outlook on skills development can solve CTO headaches and fast-track coding careers in 2023