Tech leaders reveal recruitment gaps for 2017

According to research by IT staffing services Modis, tech leaders cited finding good interpersonal skills the biggest recruitment challenge tech employers will face this year. In fact, 31% of the 500 respondents based in United States shared that soft skills were the most difficult to find among candidates.

As for the top three technical skills that are hard to find, security and critical infrastructure ranks the highest at 22%; followed by project management (21%) and quality assurance (18%).

This raises a concern in the tech industry especially when external threats was named as the biggest potential hazard in 2017 by 40% of the respondents. Other than that, 41% said age was the biggest challenge to diversity in the workplace, followed by 28% citing gender, and 21% for ethnicity.

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