{"id":13953,"date":"2019-03-13T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T10:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T10:25:51","slug":"malaysia-needs-holistic-strategy-to-address-acute-tech-talent-deficiencies-pikom-cautions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13953","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Needs Holistic Strategy To Address Acute Tech Talent Deficiencies, PIKOM Cautions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 (Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>PIKOM, the National ICT Association of Malaysia proposes a more holistic tech talent strategy, focusing on talent development and enhancement in digital industry adoption to cope with today\u2019s ongoing disruptions and rapid-paced lifestyle and work culture.\u00a0<br><br>PIKOM cautioned that although the ICT sector contributed 18% of Malaysia\u2019s GDP in 2017, the National Policy on Industry 4.0 stated that Malaysia\u2019s skilled labour declined by 1% since 2010, to 18% in 2017. From the 435 companies surveyed by Frost &amp; Sullivan, nearly 66% of the companies face talent shortages. Frost &amp; Sullivan\u2019s Digital Report 2017 further reported that employment in the digital industry is projected to increase to 15.0% over the next three years, driven by business expansion coupled with a favorable economic outlook and competitions from global and regional countries, will make talent sourcing challenges more acute in the near future. According to Asian Digital Transformation Index 2018, a study released by The Economist Intelligence Unit, Malaysia is one of the 10 cities in Asia that is facing the most acute digital talent shortages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=34014\">http:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=34014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 (Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0PIKOM, the National ICT Association of Malaysia proposes a more holistic tech talent strategy, focusing on talent development and enhancement in digital industry adoption to cope with today\u2019s ongoing disruptions and rapid-paced lifestyle and work culture.\u00a0 PIKOM cautioned that although the ICT sector contributed 18% of Malaysia\u2019s GDP in 2017, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}