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Solving the skills gap: Cultivating the future employee

There are not many conversations, presentations or media briefings about analytics that don’t at some point touch on the issue of ‘people and skills’. Convincing business leaders of the merits of analytics given the technology now available is often the easy part. It inevitably leads on to what the barriers are to analytics deployment. And
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Skills shortages plague SMEs across the world

Small and medium sized enterprises across the world are suffering from a lack of skilled labour, according to the Global Business Monitor report from Bibby Financial Services (BFS). Findings of the annual report, which surveys SME owners and decision makers across Asia, Europe and North America reveal that skills shortages are the number one issue
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Employers risk fuelling UK skills crisis

UK professionals lack the essential skills to perform their roles, and feel woefully unsupported by their employers as they seek to keep pace with the modern workplace. New research from ILM reveals that almost two thirds (62 per cent) of UK professionals say they are not ‘very well equipped’ to do their job. Even more
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Skills gap wider in London than the rest of the country

More than two-fifths of small business owners in the UK (43 per cent) experience challenges in recruiting the right staff needed for their business in a skills gap, according to the latest Aldermore SME Future Attitudes report, a survey conducted amongst 1,000 SMEs across the UK. The challenges faced by businesses when recruiting staff are most
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