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