The New Importance of Investing in Upskilling Your Personnel

According to the World Economic Forum, 54% of employees will require significant upskilling by 2022. In the past, agencies simply hired talent to fill in-demand positions. Now, however, agencies are not able to keep up with the pace of hiring new talent for every technology change, and potential candidates could have outdated technology skills from the time they are certified to the time that they enter a position. As of 2017, average time-to-hire in the government was 106 days compared to 22.9 days for businesses across the United States. Combine that with an aging workforce, where nearly two-thirds of the federal IT workforce is over 40 years of age, and the urgency for effective upskilling is unequivocal.