Publisher`s description - Microsoft IT Academy
The Microsoft IT Academy program provides resources that benefit all students, faculty, and staff. Acquiring skills on the latest technologies helps students to become better collaborators, communicators, critical thinkers, innovators, problem solvers, and citizens of our global economy. More than 50% of today’s jobs require some degree of technology skills, and experts say that percentage will increase to 77% in the next decade.(1) Studies suggest that in the next 5 to 10 years there will be a significant shortage in the supply of skilled IT professionals.(2) Over the next four years, Information Technology (IT) employment will rise by 5.8 million jobs and 51% of all IT jobs will be software related, creating 75,000 new businesses.(2) Technology skills contribute to economic growth through increased productivity and greater capacity to adopt new technologies, ways of working, and new sources of innovation.(3)
(1) US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2) IDC (3) OECD 2011
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