In a rapidly evolving tech landscape, the journey to professional success often begins with the question: “What technologies should I be learning?” The demand for skilled individuals in the tech sector is constantly evolving, and keeping up with the latest trends is crucial. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or embarking on your tech career, here’s… Read More »
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4 Ways Systems Integrators Can Drive Profitability in 2024 with a Hire-Train-Deploy Approach
By all accounts, the most consistent business prediction for 2024 is continued economic uncertainty. Organizations must find a way to balance the difficult economic environment with the need to embrace technology. For many private sector companies, that often means pausing any non-critical projects and bootstrapping a budget. For many public sector organizations, it means forging… Read More »
3 IT Priorities for 2024: ServiceNow + Smoothstack
In 2024, spending on digital transformation is projected to reach $2.5 trillion, according to Statista. What exactly are businesses hoping to achieve with that investment? ServiceNow’s Technology Excellence Handbook covers digital transformation in a practical sense. It looks at IT’s business priorities and objectives, and offers real-world examples of how it’s customers have utilized ServiceNow… Read More »
AI Talent Hiring Trends: What to Know for 2024
Elon Musk recently proclaimed artificial intelligence “one of the most disruptive forces in history.” While Musk’s controversial prediction that AI will eventually eliminate all jobs is up for debate, what isn’t in question is the urgent need for AI talent right now. The current AI use cases across the business world run the gamut, from… Read More »
A Veteran’s Take: Redefining Modern IT Careers
The crippling talent shortage. A severe supply and demand imbalance. The breakneck pace of innovation. The pressure to digitally transform. These aren’t just the challenges keeping CIOs up at night – they are the driving forces behind the redefinition of the modern IT employee. In large part because of these trends, many of today’s IT… Read More »
How to Harness the Power of Data Management
The speed with which data is created online is difficult to fathom. Every minute online, there are 5.9 million Google searches, 66,000 Instagram photos are uploaded, and 231.4 million emails sent. According to some estimates, more than 2.5 quintillions of data are created each day. Yes, that’s quintillion, as in, 18 zeroes. All of those… Read More »
Benefits of Skills-based Hiring in Financial Services
Skills-based hiring is an approach to recruiting and evaluating job candidates based on their skills, instead of their education or work experience. It asks candidates to show what they can do, not tell where they’ve been.… Read More »
Is a Digital Skills Gap Holding Financial Services Back?
How upskilling, reskilling and hire-train-deploy can help employers in finance transform their digital workforce Rapid digital transformation, security challenges and competitive pressure have put financial services behind the eight ball. Technology (and disruptors) are reshaping the banking industry — and customer expectations. Financial services no longer simply need an IT department that supports day-to-day desktop… Read More »
How to Develop Net-New Tech Talent for Financial Services
HTD makes it possible for companies to custom-train and build their tech workforce with highly accomplished junior software engineers.… Read More »
Supercharge Your Data: The Benefits of Hiring Databricks Experts
In an increasingly data-driven world, organizations can’t compete unless they’re equipped to effectively sift through huge amounts of data, understand it, and leverage it for growth. The opportunity, to put it mildly, is massive. According to Forrester, up to 73% of company data goes unused for analytics and decision-making. This is a significant issue, especially… Read More »