Are you among the 93% of hiring managers that our 10th Annual Open Source Jobs Report found are struggling with recruiting and retaining open source talent? Do you need talent in areas like cloud computing, containers, system administration, DevOps, networking, and other technology infrastructure? It has become clear that constant recruitment, increased wages, fringe benefits, and other traditional techniques for recruiting and retaining talent are not sufficient to address the talent shortages being seen today.
There simply are not enough individuals out there with skills in today’s most important open source technologies. The only solution is to increase the talent pool, but if you are going to wait for promising candidates to gain these skills on their own you are going to be in the same boat you are now, competing with everyone else for the same small group of individuals. Instead you need to invest in training and certification.
This means looking at your existing pool of talent, identifying skills gaps, then training existing team members in those skills. For most organizations though, this still will not be enough. Digital transformation activities are simply happening too quickly, and you are going to likely need more and more talent to meet the technology needs of a growing business. That also means hiring individuals who may not possess the skills you need, but show promise, and investing in them immediately by providing paid training, along with certifications to verify their learnings. Doing this will not only help you get the skills you need within your organization, but also create loyalty and reduced turnover, helping recoup that investment in the medium to long term.
At Linux Foundation Training & Certification, we offer a variety of training courses and certification exams that can be delivered individually or to groups. We also have group pricing and subscription offerings to ensure your organization has access to all the training and certification you need. Learn more here, and start closing your organization’s talent gap.
