How can companies win in the tech-talent battlegrounds

With an acceleration in the digital landscape, companies are facing a dire need to boost their speed, reliability, flexibility, security, and value to thrive in the tech-savvy world. More than hiring the most skilled professionals is required; it's time to think about how to upskill employees to match the pace with the latest advancements.

Critical Tech Areas with Skill Gaps and The Best Strategies to Overcome Them

Talent transformations can significantly impact companies. Still, talent transformations are relatively rare, with only about 27% of companies pursuing it in the past two years and 15% believing they will in the upcoming years. The following battlegrounds are challenging due to a tech-talent shortfall. Also, discover the best strategies to stand strong in these fields and create a matchless mark in the digital age.

Transforming Customer Experience 

Organisations are employing massive efforts to create a synchronised customer experience as the customers become particular about personalised design, utmost privacy assurance, and improved UI/UX. The efforts can turn rewarding because approximately 72% of customers are likely to share a positive experience with six or more people.

Best Measures:

Organisations must adopt scalable test-and-learn abilities, predictive analysis, design thinking, rapid prototyping, and automated testing.

Stability, Reliability, and Agility in DevOps

83% of IT decision-makers reported DevOps implementation could unlock higher business value. Consequently, the demand for DevOps practitioners has witnessed a massive rise. Moreover, it is becoming more agile with stable environments offering shortened operation times. Numerous features have been added and will likely come up in a few years to support business expectations. 

Best Measures:

In addition to agile product lifecycle management, companies must realise the need for continuous integrations and microservices architecture. They must upskill their workforce and prepare for the future. 

Improvement in Cloud

With the next-gen cloud architecture capabilities taking over, business functions are accelerating daily. This tech domain has everything turning faster and more efficient, including time-to-market services and solution scalability. 

Best Measures:

Hiring experienced candidates or training your present staff is a prerequisite to managing hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architecture, smart distribution, data security, and edge computing.

Dire Need for Cybersecurity 

Data breaches are increasing daily, and so is the need for data privacy. A shortage of extremely efficient tech talent has put the most secure data architectures at risk. As a result, organisations must prioritise cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and standardisation of protocols. 

Best Measures:

Individuals must possess profound knowledge of automated testing, compliance with data protection laws, and zero-trust security. 

Accelerating Automation

With more than 67% of companies adopting business process automation solutions to improve end-to-end visibility across systems, businesses need skilled professionals who can handle the technologies. Various operations related to business models can be automated, including development, deployment, and testing processes. Strategies employed in promoting automation can reduce errors, speed up completion, and significantly enhance ROI 

Best Measures:

Tech talent with expertise in RPA technologies, AI-enabled analytics, machine learning, cognitive AI, and quantum computing must be hired/upskilled. Companies must fairly compensate skilled professionals to boost their drive for work.  

Flexibility With PaaS and Products

The PaaS operating model is gaining momentum as many companies realise the value of developing reusable code. Using a reusable code as a product accelerates new deliveries and makes them more flexible. 

Best Measures:

Employ tech talent to life cycle management across various platform layers for efficient management of industrial IoT and vertical SaaS.

Best Strategies to Outsmart Competitors in Tech-Talent Battlegrounds

Enterprises and startups can employ the following strategies to bridge the skill gaps and nail the tech talent battlegrounds:

• Recruiting candidates with the skills to match your company's present and future requirements.
• Prioritizing quality over quantity can drastically help achieve your productivity goals.
• Including tech leaders in the recruitment process ensures appropriate skill assessment.
• Hiring candidates who are willing to learn so that they can keep up with the evolving tech-scape. 
• Automating the recruitment process can also close the talent gap faster.
• Increasing your investment in reskilling the existing workforce is one of the smartest moves. It is more economical and has higher chances of success.
• Adopting targeted training programs for tech talent. 
• Promoting short-term reskilling boot camps or workshops followed by internal job posting for those who acquire the skills.  
• Roping in non-tech talent and fostering cross-functional skills.

Strategic movements with an increased emphasis on quality are a must to survive and outperform in the present technical scenario. Smart hiring, retaining the skilled lot, and training the present workforce can make a company successful and future-ready workforce for the technical advancements the world will soon witness.

The article has been written by Robin Bhowmik, Chief Business Officer, Manipal Global (Skills Academy)