The shortage of skilled workers is increasing. But it is becoming more and more difficult to hire well qualified employees.
Switzerland has been training very good specialists for years. Because of its high wages and good quality of life, the country is also very popular with expats. But this is changing. Because the general conditions are deteriorating it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to recruit top talent.
There is also a shortage of skilled workers in the ICT profession. For every unemployed ICT specialist there are four vacancies, as current figures from the Swiss ICTswitzerland umbrella organization show. The Swiss economy needs 117,900 additional ICT specialists by 2028. This means that demand is growing even faster than expected.
But where will these software developers, network specialists, mediamaticians, telecommunications experts, ICT managers and graphic and multimedia designers come from? SBB Informatik has just awarded a software contract to T-Systems Germany, partly because of the shortage of skilled workers in the Swiss IT sector.
The shortage of specialists in new technologies in the Java environment, such as Kafka, Angular, Spring Boot, Docker / OpenShift, is particularly acute. There are also few specialists in specialist areas such as IT security, application integration, test driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
Many large companies have complex technical requirements and are in the field of cutting-edge technologies. Therefore, they depend on the best experts who are familiar with the latest developments. Due to digitalization, demand in all IT areas has grown faster than the market can educate. The situation is all the more acute in the area of the latest technologies. As a result, employers must invest a great deal of effort in recruiting the urgently needed specialists. They often even chase the best people away from each other. The problem, Swiss ICT talent and immigration would only cover 70% of demand.
This makes it all the more important in the future to focus on the training and continuing education of employees. SBB, for example, has more than tripled the number of IT trainees in recent years.
In addition, the often-dusty image of the IT specialist must change in society and in training centers. The pale nerd in the basement in front of his PC no longer corresponds to reality. Today computer scientists are required to be communicative and have a high level of social competence. They work in very diverse, interdisciplinary teams and are in lively exchange with the users of their applications. And it would also be very important for the IT profession to finally become more attractive to women. Typical female skills such as empathy and communication skills are particularly in demand and are becoming increasingly important. With the possibility of part-time work and flexible working hours, the profession is also particularly attractive for parents.
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Source: SwissICT / InsideIT
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