IT SKILLS GAP

Bridging the tech talent gap to deliver shareholder value

Workday enables you to find, develop and retain the IT talent you need – even in today’s talent-scarce landscape. How? With a skills-based strategy driven by AI and a unified digital platform made to take your organisation forever forward.

Bridging the tech talent gap to deliver shareholder value
Research finding

The research behind the skills gap

Emerging research helps us understand, and even quantify, the significance of the IT skills gap. Leaders around the globe find that it’s urgent, rapidly expanding and solvable with the right approach.

This infographic brings together the most helpful and actionable insights for you.

87%

of organisations currently have skills gaps or expect to have them in the next few years.

90%

of organisations will be affected by IT skills shortages by 2025.

$6.5 trillion

could be lost by businesses due to delays, customer dissatisfaction and loss of business.

BRIDGING THE GAP

For every gap, there is a bridge. Or three.

The Workday suite of applications turns IT challenges into opportunities by providing essential insights and automations tailored to your needs.

Start with Workday Skills Cloud – the digital skills foundation trusted by over 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies – and then see how Workday Prism Analytics and Workday People Analytics can deepen and accelerate your skills journey.

 

For every gap, there is a bridge. Or three.
IT Solutions

Solutions for your best-in-class IT skills strategy

Workday Skills Cloud

The world’s most open intelligent skills foundation, Workday Skills Cloud uses embedded AI to continually update and refine your understanding of your workforce. Keep pace with evolving industry standards and requirements, create better people strategies and meet your organisation’s needs by upskilling, reskilling, redeploying and hiring new talent with ease.

 

Workday Prism Analytics

Take your skills and workforce data even further. Workday Prism Analytics, the advanced analytics engine, integrates external and internal Workday data, giving you a comprehensive view of your business and democratised access to insights. Empower everyone within the organisation to make more confident decisions, drive growth and identify and seize opportunities like never before.

 

Workday People Analytics

Reveal the hidden patterns, trends and opportunities in your workforce data and see the complete skills-related story. Workday People Analytics is the key to understanding your dynamic, complex workforce – acting with confidence, fairness and speed to unlock your team’s potential and expand profitability.

 

WORKDAY SKILLS CLOUD

Delivering business agility by closing the IT skills gap

Create more agile teams and strategies with a skills foundation designed to handle the volume, complexity and scale of today’s workforces.

Deliver a global skills strategy

Provide a consistent experience worldwide by leveraging Workday tools to interact with skills in 16 languages.

Enhance data-driven experiences

Enable richer data experiences with machine learning that uncovers complex skill connections beyond human analysis.

Reduce administrative complexity

Fine-tune operations with granular and duplicate management, automated reports, skills categorisation and support for proprietary and crowdsourced audits.

Focus on the skills that matter

Keep your teams aligned by identifying, tracking and developing the critical skills that matter most to your business.

Drive talent agility with analytics and AI
AGILITY AND AI

Drive talent agility with analytics and AI

Gain rich insights into your skills strategy by leveraging advanced analytics and AI capabilities. With AI built into the core of the Workday platform, our unmatched capabilities are designed to be scalable and continuously evolve to meet the demands of an ever-changing future.

User viewing their job match analysis and recommended learning content in Career Hub

Skills-based recommendations

Analyse large amounts of data quickly to provide equitable recommendations for jobs, learning content and connections.

Skills suggestions for everyone

Whether you’re a candidate, an employee or an admin, Workday Skills Cloud suggests the skills that are relevant to your experience.

Jobs and opportunities matching

Machine learning algorithms match candidates and employees with relevant jobs and surface top applicants for recruiters.

Proficiency assessments

Understand the strengths of your workforce by configuring proficiency assessments that fit the needs of your organisation.

Resources

Resources for IT leaders


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