Apprenticeships and tackling the tech skills gap

There’s an acute shortage of candidates for tech jobs – in fact, research suggests tens of millions of potential roles are going unfilled. In a poll with global technology chiefs conducted by MIT’s ‘Technology Review’, a majority found that they weren’t getting enough candidates for roles, and those who did apply lacked necessary skills.
Clearly, there’s a problem here. So what can tech companies do to bring more talent through the door? Could building a baseline of investment in new, or even unqualified, talent be a solution?

Joining us today is Maninder Randhawa, Early Careers Leader for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the UKIMEA region, to find out if apprenticeships could be the answer.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organisations and what we can learn from it.

About today’s guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maninder-randhawa-88179552/?originalSubdomain=uk

Do you have a question for the expert? Ask it here using this Google form: https://forms.gle/8vzFNnPa94awARHMA

Statistics and sources cited in today’s episode:
85 million unfilled tech roles by 2030: https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/talent-crunch-future-of-work

MIT Technology Review poll with tech leaders on talent shortages: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/21/1079695/new-approaches-to-the-tech-talent-shortage/

US Govt to build a working fusion reactor within ten years: https://apnews.com/article/granholm-nuclear-fusion-energy-emissions-416f497b842ce94292ec6fb009a4087a